Asked by: Baroness Fookes (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask His Majesty's Government when they plan to implement the statutory obligation under section 102 of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023 for decision makers to pay special regard to heritage assets when making planning decisions regarding, among other things, registered parks and gardens.
Answered by Baroness Taylor of Stevenage - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Housing, Communities and Local Government)
The government announced on 17 August in its response to the consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework that it will implement section 102 of the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023. Further details of this will be announced in due course.
Asked by: Baroness Fookes (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many acres of land are occupied by (1) private gardens, and (2) public parks and gardens, in England.
Answered by Lord Greenhalgh
633,400 hectares (1,565,100 acres) of land in England is classified as private residential gardens: this equates to approximately 5 per cent of England's total land area
Source: Live Table P400b, Land Use in England 2018 statistics attached (DLUHC): https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-land-use
The Ordnance Survey’s OS Open Greenspace spatial data product provides information on the number of hectares of land occupied by open greenspace, including public parks and gardens, within Great Britain (attached): https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/products/open-map-greenspace