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  Housing and Planning Bill - Vacant High Value Local Authority Housing - Local Retention of Funds for Social Housing
  
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  @ MP voted aye against requiring the local retention of funds from selling high value council homes where there is a local need for social housing. 
  @ MP voted no to require the local retention of funds from selling high value council homes where there is a local need for social housing. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted against requiring the local retention of funds from selling high value council homes where there is a local need for social housing. 
  
  
  MPs were considering the Housing and Planning Bill[1].
  
  The motion supported by the majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That this House disagrees with Lords amendment 47
  
  Lords amendment 47[2] stated:
  
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  :â( )  If a local housing authority so wishes, and that authority can demonstrate, whether by reference to its local housing plan or otherwise, that there is a need in its area for social housing of the kind that it proposes to build, the Secretary of State shall enter into an agreement with that authority whereby it shall retain such part of the payment as may be required to fund the provision of a new dwelling to be let as social housing on terms (as to tenure, rent or otherwise) which are similar to those on which the old dwelling was let.â
  
  Had it not been rejected this would have added the above new subclause to clause 72 of the Bill titled ''Reduction of payment by agreement''. The clause related to a requirement for local councils to pay central Government the value of any high value council homes which are likely to become vacant during the year. Provisions in the Bill require councils to consider selling such high value council homes.  The rejected amendment sought to require some of the funds to be retained for the provision of social housing locally where need is demonstrated.
  
  Without the rejected amendment the option to allow such funds to be retained locally was available, but there is nothing in the Bill requiring the Secretary of State use it.
  
  
  
  
  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2015-16/housingandplanning.html Parliament's webpage on the Housing and Planning Bill]
  * [2] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/2015-2016/0170/16170.1-5.html Lords amendments to the Housing and Planning Bill]
  * [3] [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2015-2016/0087/lbill_2015-20160087_en_5.htm#pt4-ch2-pb1-l1g72 Clause 72 of the Housing and Planning Bill prior to the Lords amendment]
  
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