Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 75184

Fast Food: Planning

Tabled: 4 September 2025

Answered: 12 September 2025

Question

Sir James Cleverly

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make it her policy to amend national planning policy guidance to explicitly exclude sandwich shops from the fast food outlet ban in paragraph 97 of the National Plann

Answer

Matthew Pennycook

It is for local planning authorities, when receiving a planning application, to consider whether, given the type of food and service to be provided at the location proposed, they consider the outlet to be either a hot food takeaway or a fast-food outlet. ...

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