Question follow-through · 102049
Planning: Local Government
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether local authorities will receive powers to set planning fees locally for the 2026/27 financial year.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 2 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 6 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jan 2026 · 10 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
2 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether local authorities will receive powers to set planning fees locally for the 2026/27 financial year.
6 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jan 2026
Answer published
The Planning and Infrastructure Act provides the Secretary of State with the power to delegate the setting of planning fees to local planning authorities. The process for local fee setting will be set out in regulations this year. We will shortly also be ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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New Towns: Finance
5 Jan 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what changes he made to Departmental budgets in the Autumn Budget 2025 to fund the a) infrastructure and b) services required for new towns.
Council Tax: Surcharges
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Housing: Water Supply
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Local Plans
24 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government intends for a) nationally-set housing targets or b) housing targets set out in Local Plans to be used for the calculation of five year land supply in circu
Social Rented Housing: Tenants
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Social Rented Housing: Tenants
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Recreation Spaces: Parking and Railway Stations
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New Towns
29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason a) Stotfold Garden Village, b) Tempsford and c) Milton Keynes scored differently for Objective 2 of the New Towns Programme methodology.
Railway Stations: Planning Permission
29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make it his policy not to include train stations which do not have step free access in his planning policies on development around train stations.
Planning
29 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when he intends to publish the National Planning Policy Framework.