Built Environment Committee
Lords select committee, since 14 April 2021. Its page on the Parliament website.
The Built Environment Committee was appointed to consider matters relating to the built environment, including policies relating to housing, planning, transport and infrastructure.
Inquiries
- Maintenance and enforcement in public spaces (20 October 2026)
- New Towns: Bricks and Mortar (15 June 2026)
- Young People and the Built Environment (26 March 2026)
- New Towns: Creating Communities (27 October 2025)
- New Towns: Practical Delivery (19 March 2025 to 10 June 2026)
- The Grey Belt (5 September 2024)
- High streets in towns and small cities (14 February 2024 to 13 May 2025)
- Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities 2023-24 (22 January 2024 to 22 February 2024)
- Modern methods of construction – what’s gone wrong? (11 October 2023 to 5 September 2024)
- The impact of environmental regulations on development (23 February 2023 to 19 April 2024)
- Infrastructure policymaking and implementation in central government (23 November 2022 to 18 April 2022)
- Short-term lettings (2 February 2022 to 27 January 2023)
- Public transport in towns and cities (28 January 2022 to 17 April 2023)
- Williams-Shapps Plan for Rail: fare reform (1 July 2021 to 16 March 2022)
- Meeting the UK’s housing demand (22 June 2021 to 8 November 2022)
Organisations it has heard from most
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (6)
- Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (4)
- Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) (4)
- British Property Federation (3)
- Town and Country Planning Association (TCPA) (3)
- Arup (2)
- Construction Industry Training Board (2)
- Department for Transport (2)
- District Councils' Network (DCN) (2)
- Financial Times (2)
- Greater Cambridge Shared Planning (2)
- Home Builders Federation (2)
- Homes England (2)
- Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds (2)
- London School of Economics and Political Science (2)