Context
The MP notes that housing targets in Waverley and East Hampshire are doubling. Infrastructure such as schools, play areas, supermarkets, and road networks are not keeping pace with these targets.
Question
In Waverley and East Hampshire, housing targets from this Government are doubling. When my constituents move into those homes when they are built, the infrastructure and services are simply not there. By “services”, I do not mean a phalanx of civil servants to help them move house; I mean the schools, play areas, supermarkets and road networks. Will the Secretary of State come to my constituency of Farnham and Bordon to see where we need that infrastructure, so that she can understand the implications that her housing targets have for my community?
Answer from Angela Rayner (Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government)
We know that we need infrastructure as part of our planning reforms and the mandatory housing targets that we have put forward, and this Government will make sure that that infrastructure is there. I would say to the hon. Gentleman that it was his Government who allowed speculative housing developments, who failed to meet their housing targets and who left people without the houses they desperately needed.
Not addressed: The Secretary of State did not confirm a visit but defended previous government's record.
How: Defended Previous Government
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