{"id":3779,"date":"2024-07-30T13:54:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T13:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2024-08-09T14:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T14:13:49","slug":"building-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=3779","title":{"rendered":"Sir John Whittingdale raises issue of new developments in Maldon and Heybridge, and Hammonds Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>John Whittingdale&nbsp;Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An additional 3,000 homes are currently being built in Maldon and Heybridge in my&nbsp;constituency, and&nbsp;Liberal Democrat-controlled Chelmsford city council wants to build another 3,000 at Hammonds Farm in my constituency, yet the local roads and health and education services are all under intolerable pressure, so what will the&nbsp;Secretary of State&nbsp;do to ensure that the necessary infrastructure is put in place before the developments take place?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Angela Rayner&nbsp;Deputy Prime Minister, The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The right hon. Gentleman\u2019s Government was in power for 14 years and could have resolved this issue. One reason why we are consulting on the revised&nbsp;NPPF&nbsp;is because we recognise that infrastructure is critical, as I have said to many hon. Members today. People often reject housing proposals because they do not see infrastructure. That is why we have the golden rules, why I have asked all the Departments to look at what we can do to ensure that infrastructure is there, and why we will support the strengthening of section 106 to ensure that developers do not try to squeeze out of what they promised as part of the development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Sir John Whittingdale raises issue of new developments in Maldon and Heybridge, and Hammonds Farm.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A6rMINJLGj0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Whittingdale&nbsp;Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care) An additional 3,000 homes are currently being built in Maldon and Heybridge in my&nbsp;constituency, and&nbsp;Liberal Democrat-controlled Chelmsford city council wants to build another 3,000 at Hammonds Farm in my constituency, yet the local roads and health and education services are all under intolerable pressure, so what will the&nbsp;Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speeches","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3827,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions\/3827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}