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Neighbourhood Plans

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2024 to Question 3747 on Neighbourhood Plans, what plans she has for the role of neighbourhood plans in planning policy when a planning auth

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
10 Sept 2024
Target answer date
8 Oct 2024
Answer
8 Oct 2024 · 28 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2024 to Question 3747 on Neighbourhood Plans, what plans she has for the role of neighbourhood plans in planning policy when a planning auth

  2. 8 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    Under the Government’s proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework, the protections from speculative development for areas with a qualifying neighbourhood plan are retained.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

Later records

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6 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what plans she has to include district councils in the Suffolk devolution deal.

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Planning: Powers

4 Mar 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the legal status of (a) Local Plans and (b) Neighbourhood Plans will be impacted in circumstances where the planning authority in question is subsumed into a new unitary

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Housing: Construction

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30 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she expects Locality to open the window for grant applications for funding to support communities with developing neighbourhood plans in 2025-26.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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