Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 2456

Local Plans

Tabled: 30 July 2024
Answered: 5 September 2024

Question

Mrs Kemi Badenoch

ConservativeNorth West Essex

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to ensure local planning authorities without an up to date local plan get their plans up to date.

Answer

Matthew Pennycook
This Government has inherited a planning system in which only 31% of local planning authorities have adopted plans in the last five years. We are determined to drive local plans to adoption as quickly as possible, to progress towards our ambition of achie...

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