The Affordable Housing (now Sustainable Housing) LCO saga continued at the Senedd yesterday, as Conservative AMs voted against approving the Draft Sustainable Homes LCO, despite two weeks ago having voted in favour of a referendum on the devolution of these powers and more to the National Assembly.

Once again we saw evidence of how the LCO process creates conflict, and blurs the boundaries between the principles of which powers should be devolved and the policy intentions of the Measures that would then be drawn up using those powers (in this case, the inclusion of the power to suspend the right to buy in areas of housing shortage was at the root of the opposition to the LCO). 

The LCO however was approved, and now needs to be passed at Westminster.  With a General Election looming the timescale for this is short. For a perspective on whether the LCO will survive the pre-election ‘wash-up’, see this post on the Syniadau blog.

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