Question follow-through · 42133
National Parks: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of planning applications without clear necessity on the boundaries of national parks on those areas.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 27 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 31 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 4 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
27 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of planning applications without clear necessity on the boundaries of national parks on those areas.
31 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Apr 2025
Answer published
The government has made no such assessment. Impacts of development on National Parks are assessed by local planning authorities.National Park authorities are the local planning authority within the National Park and are a statutory consultee for planning ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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