The different approaches to housing taken by England's nine regional development agencies have been attacked by the influential urban affairs select committee of MPs.
In November, the DTLR consulted RDAs on the need for a housing gap funding scheme, but only three responded, the committee complained. The South West RDA was in favour but the North West Development Agency and Yorkshire Forward did not feel such a scheme was required.

The committee's report was prompted by a 1999 European Commission ruling that the Partnerships Investment Programme, to subsidise private investment in regeneration, breached competition rules.

The government has since introduced five replacement schemes, but the committee said these had failed to be effective.

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Housing Today