Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 75868

Local Plans: Housing

Tabled: 8 September 2025
Answered: 15 September 2025
Named Day

Question

Vikki Slade

Liberal DemocratMid Dorset and North Poole

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking with the Planning Inspectorate to help ensure that local plans developed by planning authorities include achievable housing targets.

Answer

Matthew Pennycook
The revised National Planning Policy Framework published on 12 December 2024 includes a new Standard Method for assessing housing needs that is aligned to our Plan for Change milestone of building 1.5 million new safe and decent homes in England by the en...

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