Question follow-through · 84872
New Towns: Recreation Spaces
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department plans to take to help ensure that new towns adopt approaches that incorporate (a) high-quality and (b) environmentally resilient green places.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 27 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department plans to take to help ensure that new towns adopt approaches that incorporate (a) high-quality and (b) environmentally resilient green places.
27 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2025
Answer published
The government has been clear that the next generation of new towns must be well-connected, well-designed, sustainable, and attractive places where people want to live and have all the infrastructure, amenities, and services necessary to sustain thriving ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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