A Bill to amend the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to enable local planning authorities to use sums received under section 106 of the Act for the building and improvement of housing; and for connected purposes.
This Bill would enable money paid by developers under section 106 of the Act (also known as planning gain or planning obligation) to be used for building, maintaining or improving residential premises.
House of Commons
13 April 2010
This Bill would amend the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to allow local planning authorities to use money received from developers under section 106 planning obligations for building, maintaining or improving housing. In effect, planning gain could be spent directly on housing projects rather than being limited to other mitigation uses, aiming to support better and more homes.
The bill is in the early stages of passage, currently at the 2nd reading in the House of Commons.
Generated 21 February 2026
This Bill was presented, through the ballot procedure, to Parliament on 16 December 2009. This is known as First Reading and there was no debate on the Bill at this stage.
The Bill was on the Order Paper for a Second Reading debate on Friday 29 January 2010 but ran out of time.
The 2009-10 session of parliament has prorogued and this Bill will make no further progress.
No recorded votes for this bill yet.
