Oral Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
“What steps he is taking to increase flood defences.”
Tabled: 3 September 2020Answered: 10 September 2020
Asked by
Dame Harriett Baldwin
Conservative — West Worcestershire
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Answer from Hansard
The Minister for Housing and Planning (Matthew Pennycook)
Water companies are not statutory consultees on individual planning applications, but they are consulted as part of the preparation of local development plans. On 26 January, the Government declared a moratorium on any new statutory consultees and announced a review of the existing statutory consultee arrangements. A consultation on proposals designed to limit the scope of statcons to where advice is strictly necessary and to remove entirely a limited number of them will be published in the near future.