Question follow-through · 126800
Rivers: Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of adding chalk streams to the list of irreplaceable habitats in the National Planning Policy Framework.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 13 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 20 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 20 Apr 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of adding chalk streams to the list of irreplaceable habitats in the National Planning Policy Framework.
20 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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20 Apr 2026
Answer published
Between 16 December 2025 and 10 March 2026, the government consulted a new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The consultation on the revised Framework, which can be found on gov.uk here, included explicit recognition of chalk streams as features ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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