important stop think the other thing that he will have to think about is a question around what is the actual policy response to this, because if we looked at the chesham and amersham election result there are clearly issues around planning reform that the government hasn t acted upon. this seems quite different in terms of a very long held conservative seat in a leave voting area of the country, i think the government will struggle to identify any issues that they can quickly turn around and in the absence of that, taking personal responsibility and showing more contrition will be even more important. contrition will be even more important- important. that is not something important. that is not something boris - important. that is not i something boris johnson is traditionally something borisjohnson is traditionally known for, showing contrition. are we re going to see people taking the blame for this around him but the prime minister not ultimately taking responsibility himself?
much of the reforms and on what has been happening with development rights is that local councils have been taking out of the decision making of future homes. we need to address that is what planning reform should be, not the developers charter, which robertjenrick was sacked for promoting. but charter, which robert jenrick was sacked for promoting. charter, which robert jenrick was sacked for promoting. but if you are sa in: that sacked for promoting. but if you are saying that developers sacked for promoting. but if you are saying that developers are - sacked for promoting. but if you are saying that developers are sitting i saying that developers are sitting on the potential to create 1 million homes, how do you, as a labour party, propose to make them do that? brought we forward a bill in parliament to force developers to follow with the permission they already had, build it or lose it, and that was one of our proposals, so developers cannot [and bank on planning permissions the
these plans? because you haven t really convinced people that they will still continue to have a say in their local areas as to what is built there. t their local areas as to what is built there. their local areas as to what is built there. t, «t , t, built there. i don t think it is for us to convince built there. i don t think it is for us to convince people built there. i don t think it is for us to convince people that - built there. i don t think it is for us to convince people that the l us to convince people that the planning reform is a good idea. that is that the government to convince people. but we believe that a lot of people. but we believe that a lot of people have overreacted to the proposals in the white paper, which was of course just a consultation. we still don t know what is going to go into the planning bill, we don t know what the detail will be, but we never expected or wanted a plan that didn t allow people to have a say in the development of areas.- the
gove? ., ~ ,, housing as you see it for michael gove? ., ,, i. ., ., ., gove? thank you for having me on. let s ust gove? thank you for having me on. let s just say gove? thank you for having me on. let s just say the gove? thank you for having me on. let s just say the new gove? thank you for having me on. let sjust say the new housing i let s just say the new housing minister definitely has his work cut out for him. do i start? building targets, safety, planning reform, affordable homes, the list goes on but i think one of the things the cabinet and thejeep minister has to do is instill a sense that the government truly cares about housing reform. we have had nine housing minister the office was given cabinet level recognition in 2005 and it does not really suggest it is and it does not really suggest it is a department the government truly cares about so i think the first major challenge is to ensure they care about reform and stick to their promises and notjust give lip ser