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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what plans his Department has to introduce sector-led planning guidance for general aviation airfields; and if he will make a statement.

The Government’s planning policy for airfields is set out in the National Planning Policy Framework. This is supported by our planning practice guidance on 'Transport evidence bases in plan-making and decision taking’, which makes clear to local authorities that they should consider the interconnectivity between airfields of different sizes and that they should have regard to the Aviation Policy Framework.