Communities and Local Government Committee

Planning Gain Supplement

Terms of Reference:

The Committee has resolved to carry out an inquiry into the Government’s proposals to introduce a planning gain supplement, with particular reference to the following issues:

The factors which should be taken into account in determining the rate of the supplement and the level at which it should be set

How the supplement should reflect subsequent uses such as social housing

How the revenue from the supplement should be distributed and appropriate uses

Whether and, if so, how the planning gain supplement should be used to encourage development of brownfield sites

The potential impact of the supplement on s106 arrangements negotiated through the planning system

The Government's consulation document on the Planning-gain Supplement was published in December 2005 and can be viewed here.

Report:

Planning Gain Supplement: Report, together with oral and supplementary written evidence - HC 1024-I, Session 2005-06, published on 7 November 2006

Government Response:

Government Response to the Communities and Local Government Committee’s Report on the Planning-gain Supplement - Cm 7005 published on 19 December 2006

Written evidence:

Planning Gain Supplement: Written Evidence - HC 1024-II, Session 2005-06 published on 11 May 2006

Oral evidence:

Monday 24 April 2006, HC 1024-i

Witnesses:

Kelvin MacDonald - Director, Policy & Research, and Professor John Hennebury - Professor of Property Development Studies, University of Sheffield, Royal Town Planning Institute, Gideon Amos - Director, and Nick Freer - Director, David Lock Associates [a TCPA corporate member], Town & Country Planning Association; Liz Peace - Chief Executive, and Mike Gunston - Director and Chief Surveyor, British Land Corporation Ltd, British Property Federation, Louis Armstrong - Chief Executive, Chris Hart - Vice-chair, RICS Taxation Policy Panel, and Ted Westlake - Chartered Surveyor, Edwin Hill Chartered Surveyors (also a member of RICS), Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; John Best - Chief Executive, and Jane Hamilton - Chief Operating Officer, MK Partnership, Milton Keynes Council, Councillor Keith Mitchell - Chairman of the Assembly, and Martin Tugwell - Planning Implementation Director, South East England Regional Assembly, and Natalie Dear - Policy, Performance and Development, Nottinghamshire County Council

Monday 8 May 2006, HC 1024-ii

Witnesses: John Calcutt, Chief Executive; Trevor Beattie, Corporate Strategy Director; and Dennis Horne, Chief Operating Officer, English Partnerships; Brigid Simmons, Chief Executive, Business in Sport and Leisure

Tuesday 16 May 2006, HC 1024-iii

Witnesses: Home Builders' Federation and the Environment Agency

Thursday 18 May 2006, HC 1024-iv

Witnesses: Yvette Cooper MP, Minister for Housing and Planning, Department for Communities and Local Government; and John Healey MP, Financial Secretary, HM Treasury

Press Notices:

1/11/2006 Publication of Report

16/5/2006 Final evidence session - revised timings

4/5/2006 Third and Fourth Evidence Sessions

26/04/06 Second and Third Evidence Sessions

18/04/06 First Evidence Session

31/01/06 New inquiry: Call for evidence