Question follow-through · 82155
Outdoor Advertising: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of amending planning legislation on digital advertising screens.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 14 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 21 Oct 2025 · 7 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 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of amending planning legislation on digital advertising screens.
16 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
21 Oct 2025
Answer published
The advertisement control regime seeks to control the impact of advertisements by reference to their effect on amenity and public safety. Responsibility for the application of the legislation rests with local planning authorities and they are best placed ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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