A former levelling-up minister has warned that the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill will make the country’s housing crisis even worse.
Eddie Hughes, who was a minister for housing until September, said the government must ensure that building affordable accommodation is helped rather than hindered by the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill’s reforms.
He has backed a report published today by the Centre for Social Justice, which argues that the infrastructure levy will “make a bad situation worse” as it will lead to fewer affordable homes being built in the areas that need them the most.
The intervention by Hughes, which comes ahead of the bill’s return to parliament on Tuesday, follows two rebellions over housing targets and wind farms that resulted in major government policy U-turns.
