Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 92065

Crown Lands and Estates: Planning Permission

Tabled: 18 November 2025
Answered: 24 November 2025
Named Day

Question

Mims Davies

ConservativeEast Grinstead and Uckfield

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will publish guidance on the minimum time and notice period required under section 293B(7) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990.

Answer

Matthew Pennycook

Paragraph 60 of the government’s Planning Practice Guidance on Crown Development and Urgent Crown Development makes clear that once an application is ‘accepted’ under the Urgent Crown Development route the Secretary will notify the relevant local planning authority.