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Local Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities do not have up-to-date local plans.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
25 Jul 2024
Target answer date
29 Jul 2024
Answer
2 Aug 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 25 Jul 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many local authorities do not have up-to-date local plans.

  2. 29 Jul 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Aug 2024

    Answer published

    This Government has inherited a planning system in which only 31% of local planning authorities have up-to-date local plans.We are determined to drive local plans to adoption as quickly as possible, to progress towards our ambition of achieving universal ...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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