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P-05-1056 Give Local Authorities powers to control the housing market in rural and tourist areas of Wales
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Meeting: 03/11/2021 - Local Government and Housing Committee (Item 2)
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2 Letter from the Petitions Committee in relation to Petition P-05-1056 Give Local Authorities powers to control the housing market in rural and tourist areas of Wales
Supporting documents:
Minutes:
2.10.a The Committee noted the letter from the Petitions Committee in relation to Petition P-05-1056 Give Local Authorities powers to control the housing market in rural and tourist areas of Wales and agreed to respond to the letter.
Meeting: 04/10/2021 - Petitions Committee (Item 3)
3 P-05-1056 Give Local Authorities powers to control the housing market in rural and tourist areas of Wales
Supporting documents:
Minutes:
Luke Fletcher MS declared the following relevant interest under Standing Order 17.24A:
He knows the petitioner.
The Committee sympathised with the issues raised in the petition and agreed to write to the Chair of the Local Government and Housing Committee in order to ask that they consider this issue as part of their programme of work. Members agreed to close the petition.
Meeting: 17/03/2021 - Plenary - Fifth Senedd (Item 8)
Debate on petition 'P-05-1056 Give Local Authorities powers to control the housing market in rural and tourist areas of Wales'
NDM7652
Janet
Finch-Saunders (Aberconwy)
To
propose that the Senedd:
Notes
the petition ‘P-05-1056 Give Local Authorities powers to control the housing
market in rural and tourist areas of Wales’, which received 5,386 signatures.
Minutes:
The item started at
15.59
NDM7652 Janet Finch-Saunders (Aberconwy)
To propose that the Senedd:
Notes the petition ‘P-05-1056
Give Local Authorities powers to control the housing market in rural and
tourist areas of Wales’, which received 5,386 signatures.
The motion was agreed in accordance with
Standing Order 12.36.
Meeting: 09/02/2021 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 3)
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3 P-05-1056 Give Local Authorities powers to control the housing market in rural and tourist areas of Wales
Supporting documents:
- Cover sheet, item 3 PDF 50 KB View as HTML (3/1) 6 KB
- 26.01.21 Correspondence – Minister for Housing and Local Government to the Chair, item 3 PDF 265 KB
- 29.01.21 Written Statement by the Minister for Housing and Local Government, item 3 PDF 188 KB View as HTML (3/3) 24 KB
- 31.01.21 Correspondence - Petitioner to the Committee (Welsh Only), item 3 PDF 304 KB View as HTML (3/4) 7 KB
- 31.01.21 Correspondence - Petitioner to the Committee (For Members) , View reasons restricted (3/5)
Minutes:
The Committee considered the correspondence received and
agree to write to the Business Committee to ask
whether it would be possible for a Plenary debate on this petition to be
scheduled before the end of this Senedd.
Meeting: 15/12/2020 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 2)
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2 P-05-1056 Give Local Authorities powers to control the housing market in rural and tourist areas of Wales
Supporting documents:
- Cover sheet, item 2 PDF 50 KB View as HTML (2/1) 6 KB
- Research Brief, item 2 PDF 89 KB
- 27.11.20 Correspondence – Minister for Housing and Local Government to the Chair, item 2 PDF 225 KB
- 06.12.20 Correspondence - Petitioner to the Committee (Available in Welsh only), item 2 PDF 199 KB View as HTML (2/4) 15 KB
- 06.12.20 Correspondence - Petitioner to the Committee - Annex, item 2 PDF 397 KB View as HTML (2/5) 5 KB
- 06.12.20 Correspondence - Petitioner to the Committee , View reasons restricted (2/6)
- 06.12.20 Correspondence - Petitioner to the Committee -Annex , View reasons restricted (2/7)
Minutes:
The Committee agreed to write back to the Minister for Housing and Local Government to ask what urgent action she is considering taking to mitigate the affordable housing challenges in many Welsh communities, seek a further response to the proposals put forward by the petitioners including, for example, possible changes in land transaction tax and council tax.
The Committee also agreed to ask that further powers be granted to local authorities to enable them to rectify the current situation and ask that the points raised by the petitioners and the Committee are addressed by the Minister in the statement that she intends to make in January 2021.
Members agreed to return to the petition, including the possibility of a further debate or specific investigation by a committee, following that statement and also indicated an interest in exploring further the potential issue of the second home owners registering their properties for business rates to avoid paying the second homes council tax premium.