13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Was it before? I can't remember. Honestly, COVID has messed my time sense up terribly.
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
We did a whole training programme with local authorities—my time sense is terrible since COVID—in the last few years. Sorry, I'm sure that officials will be able to tell me. We did a whole programme of engagement on compulsory purchase and the ways that you…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
And also, I think, Mabon, it's part of what we've been talking about in making sure communities are empowered and engaged. An empowered and engaged community will understand what the assets look like in its local area and what might happen to them if they…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
I think that's partly what I was talking about. I'm really just starting to consider this—the whole local authority mortgage. So, we've only been considering it for housing, I will say, but we can certainly discuss whether that's a possibility for other…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Well, we might well consider that. The committee might want to recommend something of that sort. That's not my current plan, to do a TAN on it, but we'll see how the local authorities get on with both the regional and the LDP lites, as they're called, once…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
'Placemaking', we call it.
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
So, yes, Mabon, we expect them to consider how to make their communities more resilient. So, as part of that piece, it’s about making sure that the infrastructure in its widest sense, not just roads and water, but in its wider sense—so, green infrastructure…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
At the moment, if we put a requirement to legislate in another area that’s not currently in the programme for government, it would have to knock something else out. There is no legislative space, and this committee knows that because I know that you’ve looked…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Yes. And then I will say, actually, Mabon, I'm not a fan of the Localism Act, I must say. I wasn't, I don't think, in the Government when that decision was made, but I'm not a fan of the Localism Act for a number of reasons. We prefer a slightly different…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
So, we're currently actively looking at that between us.
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
So, actually, on that point, Sam, and, again, for housing, but there's no reason why we couldn't do it for other assets, we are currently investigating local authorities going back into doing local authority mortgages. When I first joined a local authority…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
It's not working, is it?
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Yes, so that's the Development Bank of Wales, and we do have loans and grants; mixed loan grants, so community facilities grants, for example, would come into play there. But, again, trying to make sure that you've got a robust business plan and a sustainable…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Yes, very much so. So, we've been working very hard with RSLs—and it has accelerated over the last few years; certainly, Richard and I have had this conversation many times—to get these mixed developments in place. So, at the moment, we often have a private…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
[Inaudible.] So, part of the self-help Wales—self-help? Self Build Wales—sorry, it's early. The Self Build Wales scheme does do exactly that, as I explained earlier, because people don't have the capital upfront to do it, so we assist until they can get a…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
We also do quite a lot of talking to various groups around Wales. So, I've had a whole series of meetings with various groups interested in community land trusts and community housing, for example, and I recently spoke at one of the co-operative housing…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
That's Richard.
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
It's going to be a long list that you get, Chair, of these. [Laughter.]
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
—until I got a job at the Welsh Government, and everybody talks about the community I came from as a deprived community. I have to say, it's news to me, but anyway. My view is that quite a lot of people who live in lower socioeconomic communities are actually…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
So, just on that, Jayne, I hate that language, I have to say. I had no idea I came from a deprived community—
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
So, we do publish some transfer guidance, as Richard has already explained. We're looking at the upfront bit, again as Richard's already explained. But we do, at the moment, partly—. So, this is Jane Hutt's portfolio a little bit as well, so I'm trying to be…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Yes, but they all publish their asset lists; they have to do that. Even if the authority isn't highlighting it on their website, it's not that difficult to find, if you want to.
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
The asset registers would only have what the local authority owned. It's their asset register, so that's public. Trying to find out who owns a particular piece of land involves having to pay the Land Registry to do the search for you. It costs a very small…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
All local authorities have to keep an asset register. I'm a bit ambivalent about the answer to that, if I'm honest with you, Carolyn, because you have to have an engaged community that wants to do something with an asset. I'm not sure that just cherry-picking…
13 Gorffennaf 2022 , Local Government and Housing Committee
Ymchwiliad i asedau cymunedol—sesiwn dystiolaeth 4: Y Gweinidog Newid Hinsawdd a’r Gweinidog Cyllid a Llywodraeth Leol
Consistency of guidance is great, but, actually, one size just does not fit all here. So, we really do have to make sure that we take into account the ability of the community engaging in the work to have a sustainable asset transfer, or asset involvement; it…
