Question follow-through · 41064
Flags: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued on whether a flag flown outside at ground level requires planning permission, where it does not have deemed consent.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 2 Apr 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
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued on whether a flag flown outside at ground level requires planning permission, where it does not have deemed consent.
27 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Apr 2025
Answer published
Relevant government guidance available on gov.uk sets out the planning rules for the display of flags.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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