Social housing

John GriffithsLabour

5 February 2026, Local Government and Housing Committee

Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 3

It's true. Although, of course, there's the English example and the English approach. I don't know if any of you have got any views on how well it's working—how that approach is working in England?

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Simon Gilbert

5 February 2026, Local Government and Housing Committee

Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 3

My perspective, Chair—'I don't know' is the answer. It's not because I haven't thought about it, it's because I genuinely think that it needs a lot more consideration. The risk is quite significant in having a national corporation in terms of the impact on private sector house builders, local…

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Dorian Payne

5 February 2026, Local Government and Housing Committee

Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 3

…of small and medium-sized enterprises, and SMEs shouldn't be forgotten. They really contribute towards social housing delivery, affordable housing delivery. The SME contractors are really the core, once you move past the land and the permission. Without SME contractors, you won't build to target…

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John GriffithsLabour

5 February 2026, Local Government and Housing Committee

Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 3

…this in terms of how we identify and assemble large-scale land for affordable housing development and social housing supply. How significant do you think that recommendation is? Are you supportive of it? How much of a game changer is it likely to be, do you think?

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Mark Harris

5 February 2026, Local Government and Housing Committee

Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 3

I would add a really good example of that is what's happened with nitrates. We had phosphates initially. We sort of felt like we'd recovered from the phosphate issue, although that hasn't actually gone away, and then suddenly nitrates landed, and we've got 2,000 to 3,000 homes, and several thousand…

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Dorian Payne

5 February 2026, Local Government and Housing Committee

Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 3

I think, again, the short answer is 'yes', but there are always unintended consequences with—. You get unintended consequences with broadness, and you get unintended consequences with prescriptiveness. It is quite a bit more complex than that. But you are right, for example with biodiversity, we're…

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Peter FoxConservative

5 February 2026, Local Government and Housing Committee

Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 3

Whilst there's a well-meaning in Government to strive, to push forward for more affordable housing, perhaps that leadership needs to be a lot clearer. They've got a contradiction of policies within portfolio; they aspire to try to do their bit, but they're conflicting with each other. Whereas if…

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Mark Harris

5 February 2026, Local Government and Housing Committee

Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 3

I'm a planner by background, so I'm going to, I guess, always end up talking about planning. I guess, added to that, we work within a plan-led system. In that small nation we've just described, we've got a national plan. We should have a strategic development plan, but they've only just got going.…

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Fiona Clay-Poole

5 February 2026, Local Government and Housing Committee

Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 3

Just a little bit more about the complexity of the policy landscape in Wales. Wales has 3.2 million people, 22 local authorities, 25 local planning authorities, three national parks, maybe four. It's really complicated. We've got four regions for one thing, we've got three regions for something…

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Simon Gilbert

5 February 2026, Local Government and Housing Committee

Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 3

I think, to pick up on that comment, you're right. We often write policy well-intended, necessary, almost essential in terms of declared climate change and nature emergencies and everything else, absolutely, and Wales is probably at the forefront of that, particularly in terms of surface water…

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Dorian Payne

5 February 2026, Local Government and Housing Committee

Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 3

…time. But the key one is, there's planning and there's also viability. As we all know, the delivery of social housing in Wales is predominantly funded by the social housing grant, and to get a social housing grant, there are various policies in that that determine how much grant the housing association…

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John GriffithsLabour

5 February 2026, Local Government and Housing Committee

Follow-up inquiry on social housing supply: Evidence session 3

…it's also very, very difficult to do that effectively. So, in terms of housing and affordable housing, social housing supply, how lined up is Welsh Government in terms of its policy goals? Are there still some policy goals that are working against the progress that we need to see? Who would like…

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