Question follow-through · 101271
Property Development: Rivers
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how explicit protection of chalk stream rivers is defined in government policy or guidance, as referenced during the Planning Reform debate on 16 December 2025.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 5 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2026 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how explicit protection of chalk stream rivers is defined in government policy or guidance, as referenced during the Planning Reform debate on 16 December 2025.
5 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2026
Answer published
The government is consulting on a new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) that includes clearer, more rules-based policies for decision-making and plan-making. The consultation includes explicit recognition of chalk streams as features of high envir...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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