Question follow-through · 13596
Housing: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his department has made of the reasons for the decline in the number of planning permissions awarded for developments of between 10 and 49 homes.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 26 Jun 2026
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 27 Jul 2026 · 31 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
26 Jun 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment his department has made of the reasons for the decline in the number of planning permissions awarded for developments of between 10 and 49 homes.
30 Jun 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
27 Jul 2026
Answer published
Planning applications statistics make clear that there has been a small reduction in the percentage of homes in planning permissions that are on sites of between 10-49 homes, from 11% in 2022-23 to 10% in 2024-25. The reasons for this marginal reduction a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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