Question follow-through · 68816
Nature Conservation: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it is her Department's policy that all planning decisions should adhere to the Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 17 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 25 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Housing: Canterbury · 9 Jun 2026
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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
17 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it is her Department's policy that all planning decisions should adhere to the Mitigation and Conservation Hierarchy.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
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25 Jul 2025
Answer published
The National Planning Policy Framework makes clear that when determining planning applications, local planning authorities should apply the principle that if significant harm to biodiversity resulting from a development cannot be avoided, adequately mitig...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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Housing: Canterbury
9 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of new housing developments on water infrastructure in Canterbury.