Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 59591

Planning Permission: Standards

Tabled: 12 June 2025
Answered: 20 June 2025

Question

Martin Wrigley

Liberal DemocratNewton Abbot

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will take steps to ensure local authorities are able to require standards in excess of legal minimums as conditions for planning approval.

Answer

Matthew Pennycook
Planning conditions attached to the grant of planning permission can be used to require development to meet certain standards. However, as the National Planning Policy Framework states, such conditions should only be imposed where they are necessary, rele...

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