Question follow-through · 17260
Water Companies: Planning
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure water companies are consulted on planning applications.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 8 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 13 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 17 Jul 2026 · 9 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
8 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to ensure water companies are consulted on planning applications.
13 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Jul 2026
Answer published
Water companies are not statutory consultees on individual planning applications, but they are consulted as part of the preparation of local development plans. The government has no plans to change these arrangements.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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