Rupa Huq MP Member of Parliament for Ealing Central & Acton
This morning I urged Leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg MP to grant an urgent debate on planning.
Local government cuts, housing targets and a deregulated planning regime have meant that a lot of councils have had no choice but to surrender municipal land for luxury flats.
This can’t be right. We need to radically overhaul the planning system for the post-Covid future, and build the genuinely affordable housing that our communities are in such desperate need of.