Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 126800
Rivers: Planning
Tabled: 13 April 2026
Answered: 20 April 2026
Named DayQuestion
Pippa Heylings
Liberal Democrat — South Cambridgeshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of adding chalk streams to the list of irreplaceable habitats in the National Planning Policy Framework.
Answer
Matthew PennycookBetween 16 December 2025 and 10 March 2026, the government consulted a new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The consultation on the revised Framework, which can be found on gov.uk here, included explicit recognition of chalk streams as features ...
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