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  • This paper invites views on the government’s proposed new approach to development and nature recovery.

  • This consultation is seeking views on our proposed approach to revising the NPPF. It also seeks views on a series of wider national planning policy reforms.

  • This paper invites views on how the government could reform planning committees to support a plan-led system and ensure appropriate democratic oversight.

  • This paper invites views on further action the government could take through the planning system to support the development of brownfield land in urban areas.

  • This consultation proposes changes to permitted development rights to support recreational camping, renewable energy and film-making.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • This consultation seeks views on the details to the operational reforms which the government is looking to make to the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) consenting process.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • This consultation seeks views on changes to several existing permitted development rights that allow for householder development, building upwards to create new homes, the demolition of certain buildings and rebuild as homes…

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Consultation on changes to national planning policy to support brownfield development and reviewing the threshold for referral of applications to the Mayor of London.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Call for evidence on the government’s proposals to improve the transparency of contractual mechanisms, such as land options, use to exercise control over land.

    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • This consultation seeks views on the government’s plans to provide a more transparent picture of controls on land through the creation of a freely accessible dataset.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • The Department for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities is seeking views on how we might develop new national planning policy to support our wider objectives.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • The prospectus sets out why we need to go further than the existing programme of reform for infrastructure, and how our new approach will bear down on the drivers of delay, high costs and inefficiency.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • As part of the review of the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Planning (NSIP) process and all its interactions we invite views on the NSIP process.

    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • A consultation on our proposals to make local plans (and minerals and waste plans) simpler, faster to prepare, and more accessible.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Consultation on additional flexibilities to support housing delivery, the agricultural sector, businesses, high streets and open prisons; and a call for evidence on nature-based solutions, farm efficiency projects and divers…

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Consultation on amending the compensation provisions for assessing prospective planning permission where land is compulsorily acquired.

    First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

  • This consultation proposes the introduction of a use class for short term lets and permitted development rights to provide flexibility where there are no local issues with such uses.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • This is a technical consultation on the Infrastructure Levy, which is a reform to the existing system of developer contributions.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • The Department for Levelling Up. Housing and Communities seeks views on our approach to developing Environmental Outcomes Reports to support departments in the next stage of policy development.

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

  • Cross-government action plan to deliver reforms to improve the planning system for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).

    First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government