AQW 3625/17-22

Mr John Blair
Alliance Party
South Antrim

Tabled Date: 12/03/2020
Answered On Date: 23/06/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Communities what action she is taking, through consultation with relevant sectors including local planning offices, to ensure that all new private housing developments will have a quota of public sector provision.

Answer:

My Department works with a range of stakeholders, including local planning offices to support the delivery of public sector housing. Councils, particularly through the community planning and local development planning process, have a key role to play in the delivery of the types and volume of homes that are required to address the current and foreseeable housing needs.

The Housing Executive is vested with the statutory duty to assess housing need, and it is not within my Department’s remit to determine the quota for private housing developments. However I am fully supportive of proposals which would deliver mixed tenure housing. My officials continue to engage with relevant stakeholders including Housing Executive and councils to ascertain how this can best be delivered.