House Building in South Wales West

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs – in the Senedd at 2:11 pm on 3 October 2018.

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Photo of Bethan Sayed Bethan Sayed Plaid Cymru 2:11, 3 October 2018

Something that animates quite a lot of local people is the fact that there's no mandate within the planning system for facilities for many of those new estates. So, sometimes you have housing estates that are well-kept and they have provision in that regard, but they don't have parks, they don't have any surgeries, they don't have those things that would create a community. The system, therefore, alienates a lot of people who may not mind having those new houses in their local community, but would welcome some investment in the infrastructure around that. So, what more can you do as a Government to look at how we can build in these facilities to the local planning systems, so that we can be assured that when we're creating homes we're creating communities as well?