Question follow-through · 23932
Heat Pumps: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department's proposals for planning restrictions on heat pumps will be implemented.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- 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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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
14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department's proposals for planning restrictions on heat pumps will be implemented.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jan 2025
Answer published
Nationally set permitted development rights enable the installation of air and ground source heat pumps without the need to submit a planning application. The previous government consulted on proposed changes to these rights, and on 21 November we announc...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Housing: Complaints
10 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to help reduce the average waiting time for a decision from the Housing Ombudsman Service.
Listed Buildings: Charging Points
8 Jul 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the requirements of listed building status do not delay the uptake of (a) EV charging and (b) household batteries.