Question follow-through · 120177
Property Development: Sewers and Water Treatment
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department provides to local planning authorities on wastewater treatment capacity when determining applications for major housing developments.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 11 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 16 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 23 Mar 2026 · 12 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
11 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department provides to local planning authorities on wastewater treatment capacity when determining applications for major housing developments.
16 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Mar 2026
Answer published
Planning Practice Guidance on water supply, wastewater, and water quality sets out how the planning process should take account of water quality and the delivery of adequate water and wastewater infrastructure. That guidance can be found on gov.uk here.Be...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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