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Churches: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many new Christian places of worship have been granted planning permission by local authorities in (a) England and (b) greater London in every year since 1997.

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
30 Jan 2026
Target answer date
3 Feb 2026
Answer
24 Feb 2026 · 25 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 30 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many new Christian places of worship have been granted planning permission by local authorities in (a) England and (b) greater London in every year since 1997.

  2. 3 Feb 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 24 Feb 2026

    Answer published

    My Department does not hold the requested information. Although quarterly planning application statistics are collected and published on gov.uk here, separate figures on places of worship that have been granted planning permission are not collected.

Open official record

Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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