Question follow-through · 17390
Housing: Hertfordshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will take steps to ensure that communities receive required infrastructure upgrades before new houses are occupied in (a) Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency
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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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Recorded timeline
2 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if her Department will take steps to ensure that communities receive required infrastructure upgrades before new houses are occupied in (a) Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency
4 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Dec 2024
Answer published
The National Planning Policy Framework sets out that the purpose of the planning system is to contribute to the achievement of sustainable development, including the provision of supporting infrastructure in a sustainable manner.Local development plans sh...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Homelessness
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Mayors: Elections
19 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what voting system her Department plans to use for the 2026 mayoral elections.
Housing: Sewers
4 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department is taking steps to impose a legal duty on large-scale housing developments to include adequate sewage capacity.
Rented Housing: Tenants' Rights
7 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department plans to improve the rights of residents in non-traditional housing against (a) eviction, (b) sudden contract cancellations and (c) large rent increases.
Sewers and Water: Property Development
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Property Development: Infrastructure
8 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure local planning authorities can independently verify network capacity claims where there is evidence of (a) repeated sewage discharge
Local Plans
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will direct the Planning Inspector to give greater consideration to draft local plans that have met early submission deadlines during the examination stage.
Property Development: Infrastructure
17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to permit local planning authorities to commission independent assessments of (a) water and (b) drainage infrastructure capacity.
Social Rented Housing: Construction
23 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Right to Buy scheme on local councils’ ability to invest in new social housing.
Council Housing: Construction
23 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has considered allowing local authorities to (a) retain and (b) reinvest all proceeds from Right to Buy sales into building new council homes.
Right to Buy Scheme
23 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that homes sold under Right to Buy are not used as private rental properties.
Social Rented Housing: Finance
30 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will provide funding for social rent homes in the Spending Review.