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Recreation Spaces

Commons · Question 37939 · Tabled 12 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 19 Mar 2025

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Asked by Cat Eccles

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that green spaces are adequately designed to (a) tackle climate challenges, (b) support water availability and (c) increase flood re

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Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 19 Mar 2025

The revised National Planning Policy Framework published on 12 December 2024 makes clear that the planning system should take full account of all climate impacts, including water scarcity and flood risk. Planning should help to shape places in a way that ...