National Landscapes: Planning Permission
Commons · Question 72164 · Tabled 29 Aug 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record
Answered 15 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Edward Morello
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of making Natural Landscapes statutory consultees in the housing planning system.
Answer
Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 15 Sep 2025
The government is clear that the bar for being a statutory consultee in the planning system, and therefore having to be consulted on planning applications by law, should be high. In January 2025 the government declared a moratorium on any new statutory co...