Question follow-through · 18950
Planning Permission: Air Pollution
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the requirements set out in the interim planning guidance on the consideration of the Environment Act PM2.5 targets in planning
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 10 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 16 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 19 Dec 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the requirements set out in the interim planning guidance on the consideration of the Environment Act PM2.5 targets in planning
16 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
The interim planning guidance is expected to have minimal impact on the viability and cost of new developments. It is interim guidance whilst Defra develops substantive technical guidance, and as such an assessment is not required.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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