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Property Development: Air Pollution

Commons · Question 29078 · Tabled 5 Feb 2025 · Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · Official record

Answered 14 Feb 2025

Question

Asked by David Simmonds

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 21 January 2025 to Question 23346 on Property Development: Air Pollution, for what reason a Regulatory Impact Assessment is not required for that guidance.

Answer

Answered by Emma Hardy, 14 Feb 2025

Applicants are advised to consider the interim planning guidance as part of their planning application, but the interim guidance is not statutory. Therefore, it is not a regulatory provision and as such a Regulatory Impact Assessment is not currently requ...