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Planning: Reform

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent progress her Department has made on planning reform.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
27 Aug 2024
Target answer date
2 Sept 2024
Answer
2 Sept 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 27 Aug 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent progress her Department has made on planning reform.

  2. 2 Sept 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 2 Sept 2024

    Answer published

    On 30 July we opened an eight week consultation on a revised National Planning Policy Framework.As well as reversing the damaging anti-supply changes made by the previous government in December 2023, proposed reforms include making housing targets mandato...

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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