Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, how many planning applications to develop urban green space have been approved in each of the last five years.

The information requested is not centrally held.

This Government has introduced a new Local Green Space planning designation to allow local communities to give special protection to valuable green or open areas of particular importance to them; we have increased councils’ powers to stop unwanted garden grabbing; and we have strengthened the role and primacy of Local Plans to shape where development should and should not go, complemented by new neighbourhood planning.