Question follow-through · 97561
Shops: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to give councils additional planning powers to help tackle unwanted uses such as barbers, vape shops and betting shops.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 5 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 11 Dec 2025 · 6 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
5 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to give councils additional planning powers to help tackle unwanted uses such as barbers, vape shops and betting shops.
10 Dec 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Dec 2025
Answer published
My Department has no current plans to amend local planning authorities’ powers along the lines suggested. The government is empowering communities to curate healthy, vibrant public spaces through the Pride in Place Strategy. We have committed to introduce...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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