Planning Authorities: Staff
Commons · Question 36847 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Pippa Heylings
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of increasing funding to local authorities to support attracting and retaining senior planners.
Answer
Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 17 Mar 2025
Attracting and retaining senior planners in local planning authority (LPA) planning departments is vital not only to maintaining a proactive, efficient planning service for local communities, but also to ensuring that new developments are well designed an...