Question follow-through · 28783
Planning: Nature Conservation
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that National Planning Policy reforms protect (a) nature and (b) wildlife.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 4 Feb 2025
- Target answer date
- 11 Feb 2025
- Answer
- 12 Feb 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
4 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that National Planning Policy reforms protect (a) nature and (b) wildlife.
11 Feb 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2025
Answer published
The revised National Planning Policy Framework we published on 12 December 2024 included several changes designed to enhance and protect the environment. For example, it expects developments to provide net gains for biodiversity, including through incorpo...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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