The Housing Minister Gavin Barwell has organised a number of regional meetings for property professionals in order to hear their views on the controversial Housing White Paper.
This document was released one fortnight ago after a series of delays and was largely given a lukewarm response.
Events
Barwell’s office at the Department of Communities and Local Government is organising these events in order to get the sector’s view on the paper in person. The first event is taking place today.
Barwell observed: ‘The challenge of increasing supply cannot be met by Government alone. That is why I want to hear from a wide range of stakeholders-councillors, local authority planning and housing officers, large and small developers, housing associations, estate agents, letting agents and others-about what they think about the White Paper and how we can work together to fix our broken housing market.’[1]
The time and location of these sessions are indicated below:
London, hosted by GLA, 20.02.17, Monday February 20, 6 30pm-8pm.
Manchester, hosted by the National Housing Federation, Tuesday February 21, 2pm-3.30pm
Agents get chance to air their views on white paper
Cambridge, hosted by Cambridge City Council, on Wednesday February 22, 3pm to 4.30pm;
Gateshead, hosted by Northern Housing Consortium, on Thursday February 23, 10.15am to 10.45am;
York, hosted by York City Council, on Friday February 24, 9.30am to 11am;
Taunton, hosted by Taunton Council, on Thursday March 2, 3pm to 4.30pm;
Surrey, hosted by South East England Councils, on Monday March 6, 10.45am to 12.15pm
Full details can be found on the Chartered Institute of Housing Website
[1] https://www.lettingagenttoday.co.uk/breaking-news/2017/2/housing-minister-wants-agents-to-tell-him-what-they-think-of-white-paper