Question follow-through · 75193
Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what role the precautionary principle plays in the planning system.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 4 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 12 Sept 2025 · 8 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
4 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what role the precautionary principle plays in the planning system.
8 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Sept 2025
Answer published
The National Planning Policy Framework sets clear expectations that a precautionary approach should be taken across a range of issues including where development could occur in locations affected by flood risk, coastal change or various other natural or m...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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