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Question follow-through · 96968

Sports: Facilities

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of planning applications affecting sports pitches over the last five years by local authority.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
3 Dec 2025
Target answer date
8 Dec 2025
Answer
15 Dec 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 3 Dec 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of planning applications affecting sports pitches over the last five years by local authority.

  2. 8 Dec 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Dec 2025

    Answer published

    My Department has not made a specific assessment about the adequacy of the types of application in question. Sport England received 1,164 statutory consultations in 2024/25, objecting to 30% of cases.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Playing Fields

10 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the answer of 9 December, to question 96967 on Sports: Facilities, if he will make an assessment of the (a) distribution and (b) availability of sports pitches by loc

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Sports: Facilities

17 Dec 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 9 December to Question 96967 on Sports: Facilities, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the (a) distribution and (b) availability of sports

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

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