6. Debate on the Equality, Local Government and Communities Committee Report: Empty Properties

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 4:38 pm on 4 December 2019.

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Photo of Mark Isherwood Mark Isherwood Conservative 4:38, 4 December 2019

Will you give way? Referring to the comments previously regarding community trusts, actually, previously, the Welsh Government did have a programme for this, delivered with Keith Edwards at the Chartered Institute of Housing Cymru, when he was the director, and with the Co-operative Centre for Wales. I went to the launch of this in Rhyl West, for example, initially hosted by a housing association, with the objective of transferring to a community trust, but the problems encountered were where there'd been a failure initially to properly co-productively engage with that local community, and that must come first, I hope you agree.