Question follow-through · 46459
Housing: Construction
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that open spaces and the green belt are protected during house building.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
Elapsed calendar days describe the record timeline, not whether Parliament considers an answer on time.
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Recorded timeline
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that open spaces and the green belt are protected during house building.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
The National Planning Policy Framework sets out the government’s policies for safeguarding the Green Belt from inappropriate development. The Framework also allows local areas to identify local green space which is protected in a similar manner to the Gre...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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