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Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that previously (a) contaminated and (b) hazardous sites are subject to site investigations prior to development.

answeredSarah GreenMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
15 May 2025
Target answer date
19 May 2025
Answer
23 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 15 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure that previously (a) contaminated and (b) hazardous sites are subject to site investigations prior to development.

  2. 19 May 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 23 May 2025

    Answer published

    The National Planning Policy Framework is clear that planning policies and decisions should contribute to and enhance the natural and local environment by remediating and mitigating despoiled, degraded, derelict, contaminated and unstable land, where appr...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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