Question follow-through · 122908
Planning Permission: Enforcement
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department provides to local planning authorities on escalating enforcement action, including the use of injunctions under section 187B of the Town and Country
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 23 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 25 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2026 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Housing and planning
- Planning Permission: Harpenden and Berkhamsted · 13 May 2026
- Local Plans · 1 Jun 2026
- Housing: Sales · 16 Jun 2026
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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
23 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance his Department provides to local planning authorities on escalating enforcement action, including the use of injunctions under section 187B of the Town and Country
25 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2026
Answer published
I refer the hon. Member to the answer given Question UIN 119662 on 18 March 2026
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Planning Permission: Harpenden and Berkhamsted
13 May 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his Department has made on the ability of Local Authorities to effectively halt unauthorised planning developments in Harpenden and Berkhamsted constituency.
Local Plans
1 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether a local planning authority is required to maintain a site allocation in its emerging Local Plan notwithstanding the refusal of a speculative planning application on that
Housing: Sales
16 Jun 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of introducing conditional contracts to make house transactions binding at an early stage.