Question follow-through · 104020
Gardens Trust: Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential risks to rural landscapes posed by removing the Gardens Trust as a statutory consultee in the English planning system.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 7 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 14 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 14 Jan 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
7 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential risks to rural landscapes posed by removing the Gardens Trust as a statutory consultee in the English planning system.
14 Jan 2026
Target answer date
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14 Jan 2026
Answer published
On 17 November 2025, my Department published a consultation on reforms to the statutory consultee system. That consultation closed on 13 January 2026 and can be found on gov.uk here. No decision will be made on the Garden Trust’s role until responses to t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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