Question follow-through · 23808

Data Centres: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of amending planning permission regulations to make the local water supplier a statutory consultees in applications to build

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
14 Jan 2025
Target answer date
17 Jan 2025
Answer
27 Jan 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 14 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of amending planning permission regulations to make the local water supplier a statutory consultees in applications to build

  2. 17 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 27 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    I refer the hon. Member to the answer to Question UIN 15758 on 3 December 2024. The hon. Member may also wish to know that we will be introducing secondary legislation later this year to prescribe data centres, gigafactories and laboratories as types of b...

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