Compulsory Purchase

(asked on 13th December 2017) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, on how many occasions he has used the powers in section 21(1)(a) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 to direct development on individual sites.


Answered by
Alok Sharma Portrait
Alok Sharma
COP26 President (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 18th December 2017

The Secretary of State has never used his powers to intervene in the preparation of local plans under Section 21(1)(a) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.

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