Oral Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
“What steps her Department is taking to increase tree-planting rates.”
Tabled: 3 February 2020Answered: 6 February 2020
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Answer from Hansard
Marsha De Cordova
Local authorities are not currently required to consider the building of new places of worship, but under the national planning policy framework they are permitted to include places of worship among a range of community buildings in a development. Where local authorities include places of worship among community buildings, the Church Commissioners seek to promote these facilities.