Question follow-through · 17129
Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department issues on whether a planning application previously been rejected by a planning authority can be resubmitted without substantive changes.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 2 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 4 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 16 Dec 2024 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Combined Authorities: Accountability · 3 Dec 2024
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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
2 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department issues on whether a planning application previously been rejected by a planning authority can be resubmitted without substantive changes.
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2024
Answer published
Planning Practice Guidance found on gov.uk here, sets out the position on this matter. The guidance makes clear that section 70A of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 allows local planning authorities to decline planning applications for recently refu...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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