Question follow-through · 49638
Planning Permission: Sports
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure existing sports facilities are not detrimentally impacted by changes to the planning system.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 May 2025
- Answer
- 16 May 2025 · 16 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
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure existing sports facilities are not detrimentally impacted by changes to the planning system.
15 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 May 2025
Answer published
The National Planning Policy Framework makes clear that open space, sports and recreational buildings and land, including playing fields and formal play spaces, should not be built on unless there is clear evidence it is no longer required, equivalent or ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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