Local Plans

(asked on 17th October 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of local planning authorities in England have not (a) published, (b) submitted and (c) adopted a local plan as of October 2017.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 1st November 2017

As we set out in the Housing White Paper Fixing our broken housing market too few places have an up-to-date plan. At the end of September 2017, 71 (21 per cent) of the 338 local planning authorities had not yet adopted a Local Plan despite having had over twelve years to do so. Of these 71 authorities there are 36 (11 per cent) who still need to submit a plan and a further 29 (9 per cent) who still need to publish. Since the National Planning Policy Framework was published five years ago in March 2012 186 (55 per cent) of authorities have not adopted a new plan.

The Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017 put beyond doubt the requirement for all areas to be covered by a plan. Proposals in the Housing White Paper Fixing our broken housing market will make plans easier to produce and emphasise the importance of keeping them up to date

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