Question follow-through · 84469
Planning Permission: Biodiversity
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many planning applications will be exempt from the requirement to replace lost nature under previous biodiversity net gain requirements.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 22 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 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
22 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many planning applications will be exempt from the requirement to replace lost nature under previous biodiversity net gain requirements.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
On 28 May 2025, the government published a consultation on improving the implementation of biodiversity net gain for minor, medium and brownfield development which can be found on gov.uk here. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is cons...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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