Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 98094
Planning Permission
Tabled: 8 December 2025
Answered: 15 December 2025
Question
Sam Carling
Labour — North West Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to tackle repeated retrospective planning applications designed to delay enforcement action on projects which have already had permission rejected.
Answer
Matthew PennycookUnder the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, local planning authorities have various powers to decline to determine planning applications. These include the power to decline to determine a retrospective planning application where an enforcement notice ha...
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