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Planning: Yeovil

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to ensure that planning decisions affecting villages in Yeovil constituency adequately protect their (a) local character, (b) historic setting and (c) surro

answeredAdam DanceMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled
10 Jul 2026
Target answer date
14 Jul 2026
Answer
20 Jul 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Jul 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to ensure that planning decisions affecting villages in Yeovil constituency adequately protect their (a) local character, (b) historic setting and (c) surro

  2. 14 Jul 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 20 Jul 2026

    Answer published

    Paragraphs 82-84 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) set out how planning policies and decisions should apply in respect of rural housing. Between 16 December 2025 and 10 March 2026, we consulted on a new NPPF. That proposed Framework, which ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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