Question follow-through · 52574
Housing: Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure transparency in the planning process for residents on new housing developments.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 14 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 May 2025
- Answer
- 23 May 2025 · 9 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
14 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure transparency in the planning process for residents on new housing developments.
16 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 May 2025
Answer published
Planning law requires local planning authorities to undertake a statutory period of publicity of no less than 21 days prior to deciding a planning application. Local planning authorities are also required to keep a planning register of live and decided ap...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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