Question follow-through · 21751
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to prevent new housing developments being left (a) uncompleted and (b) unadopted by the local authority following developer bankruptcy.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 16 Jan 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to prevent new housing developments being left (a) uncompleted and (b) unadopted by the local authority following developer bankruptcy.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Jan 2025
Answer published
Local planning authorities already have powers to issue a completion notice which requires a developer to complete their development if it is left uncompleted. If they fail to do so, the planning permission for the development will no longer be valid.In o...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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