Planning Permission: Standards
Commons · Question 59591 · Tabled 12 Jun 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 20 Jun 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
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
Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 20 Jun 2025
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...