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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether he plans to take steps to review the work of the Commission for Building Better, Building Beautiful in the context of recent feedback expressed by hon. Members.

In January 2021, the Government published a response to the commission’s report welcoming their recommendations and setting out how we would take the vast majority of them forward to embed beauty, design and placemaking in the planning system. Since then, Government has revised the National Planning Policy Framework, published the National Model Design Code and is exploring options to set up an independent Office for Place, to support communities in turning their visions of beautiful design into a reality. We will continue to review how we can further embed the Commission’s recommendations.