Question follow-through · 15023
Garden Communities and M2: Sittingbourne
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to decide on the proposed (a) M2 motorway junction and (b) Highsted Park outline planning applications.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 19 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 21 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
19 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to decide on the proposed (a) M2 motorway junction and (b) Highsted Park outline planning applications.
21 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Nov 2024
Answer published
The decision to call in this application was made on the basis of the policy set out in the Written Ministerial Statement of 26 October 2012. In line with the Written Ministerial Statement of 26 March 2019, we do not give specific reasons for calling in p...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Local Government: Planning Permission
3 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what criteria she uses to call in planning applications before they are discussed by local councillors.
Garden Communities: Sittingbourne
3 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason she called in Highsted Park outline planning applications 21/503906/EIOUT and 21/503914/EIOUT.
Agriculture: Land
3 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will publish how many hectares of the Best and Most Versatile agricultural land are (a) protected, (b) under consideration for development and (c) approved for consent in
Agriculture: Land
3 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how she plans to report on the effectiveness of her safeguarding of the Best and Most Versatile agricultural land in line with the National Planning Policy Framework.
Agriculture: Land
3 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to safeguard the Best and Most Versatile agricultural land.
Agriculture: Land
3 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how the commitment to safeguard the Best and Most Versatile agricultural land is applied to planning decisions.
Garden Communities: Sittingbourne
3 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how safeguarding the Best and Most Versatile agricultural land will be taken into account when she considers the Highsted Park development.
Agriculture: Land
19 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many hectares of the Best and Most Versatile agricultural land are (a) protected, (b) under consideration for development and (c) approved for consent in each (i) local autho
Planning Permission: Agriculture
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Housing: Older People
5 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to respond to the independent report entitled Our Future Homes: Housing that promotes wellbeing and community for an ageing population, published on 26 November 20
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when she plans to implement the secondary legislation enabling the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 to fully come into force.
Leasehold: Reform
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reasons she has yet to implement the provisions of the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 on (a) providing freeholders with equivalent rights to leaseholders on esta