Question follow-through · 35331
Planning: Powers
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the legal status of (a) Local Plans and (b) Neighbourhood Plans will be impacted in circumstances where the planning authority in question is subsumed into a new unitary
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 4 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 10 Mar 2025 · 6 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
4 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the legal status of (a) Local Plans and (b) Neighbourhood Plans will be impacted in circumstances where the planning authority in question is subsumed into a new unitary
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Mar 2025
Answer published
The legal status of local plans and neighbourhood plans is not impacted by local government reorganisation. Where reorganisation occurs, existing local and neighbourhood plans remain in force as part of the development plan for their area until they are r...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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