Question follow-through · 47949
Heat Pumps: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department plans to lay statutory instrument to remove the one-metre rule requiring planning permission to install heat pumps in England.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 24 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 May 2025
- Answer
- 7 May 2025 · 13 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
24 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department plans to lay statutory instrument to remove the one-metre rule requiring planning permission to install heat pumps in England.
7 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 May 2025
Answer published
Further announcements on permitted development rights for domestic air source heat pumps will be made in due course.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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