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Member
Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 September 2025
Debate
Planning and Infrastructure BillContribution
Instead, we believe it is better to focus the underlying reasons for delays to decision-making, of which capacity and capability pressures within local planning authorities has been a key one. That is why we are scaling back the role of statutory consultees, have increased planning fees for householder and certain other applications and are empowering local planning authorities to set their own planning fees to cover costs.
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