Question follow-through · 15156
Planning Permission: Appeals
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will review the Fast Track Appeal Process used by the Planning Inspectorate to enable residents to engage with the appeal process.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 6 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 20 Jul 2026 · 19 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
1 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will review the Fast Track Appeal Process used by the Planning Inspectorate to enable residents to engage with the appeal process.
6 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Jul 2026
Answer published
The expedited written representations planning appeal procedure, first introduced in 2009, was recently expanded to a broader range of appeals so that all planning appeals against decisions on applications made on or after 1 April 2026 may be decided thro...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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