Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 27056
Planning Authorities: South Derbyshire
Tabled: 28 January 2025
Answered: 3 February 2025
Named DayQuestion
Samantha Niblett
Labour — South Derbyshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment her Department has made the adequacy of the number of local authority planning officers in South Derbyshire to help support the Government's wider planning reform
Answer
Matthew PennycookWhile it is for individual local authorities to make their own assessments of their workforce, the government appreciate that planning departments across the country are experiencing challenges with recruitment, retention, and skills gaps and that in many...
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