Question follow-through · 119470
Playing Fields: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of playing fields that will be developed as a result of proposals to remove Sport England as a statutory consultee.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 10 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 23 Mar 2026 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
10 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department has made an estimate of the number of playing fields that will be developed as a result of proposals to remove Sport England as a statutory consultee.
12 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Mar 2026
Answer published
The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) includes strong protections for existing open space, sports and recreational buildings, and land, including playing fields, setting out that they should not be built on unless they are no longer needed, equiva...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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