Question follow-through · 25146
Factory Farming: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take legislative steps to allow local authorities to reject planning applications for (a) new and (b) expanding factory farms.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 20 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 22 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 29 Jan 2025 · 9 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
20 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take legislative steps to allow local authorities to reject planning applications for (a) new and (b) expanding factory farms.
22 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Jan 2025
Answer published
The National Planning Policy Framework is clear that planning policies and decisions should contribute to, and enhance, the natural and local environment. National planning policy in this area needs to be taken into account when determining applications r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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