Housing and Planning Bill — New Clause 57 — Marketing of New Homes to Local First Time Buyers — 5 Jan 2016 at 25:30

The majority of MPs voted not to give local planning authorities the power to require a proportion of newly built homes be initially marketed exclusively to local first-time buyers.

Local planning authorities are generally local councils but can also be other bodies such as national park authorities.

MPs were considering the Housing and Planning Bill[1]

The proposed new clause[2] rejected in this vote was titled Planning obligations: local first-time buyers and began:

  • (1) After section 106 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (planning obligations) insert—
  • “106ZA Planning obligations in respect of local first-time buyers
  • (1) When granting planning permission under 70(1)(a), or permission in principle under 70(1A)(a), for the construction of new dwellings for sale, the local planning authority may require that a proportion of the dwellings are marketed exclusively to local first-time buyers for a specified period.
  • (2) The “specified period” in subsection (1) must start no earlier than six months before the new dwellings have achieved, or are likely to, practical completion.

An explanatory note accompanying the rejected new clause[2] stated:

  • This new clause would empower local planning authorities to impose a planning obligation when giving planning permission for the construction of new housing for sale requiring that a proportion of the housing is marketed exclusively to local first time buyers.

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Party Summary

Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.

What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.

What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.

What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.

PartyMajority (No)Minority (Aye)BothTurnout
Con276 (+2 tell) 0084.2%
Green0 10100.0%
Lab1 65 (+2 tell)029.3%
LDem0 2025.0%
PC0 2066.7%
UUP0 20100.0%
Total:277 72061.3%

Rebel Voters - sorted by party

MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division

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NameConstituencyPartyVote
Karin SmythBristol SouthLab (minister)no

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