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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2019 to Question 205785 on New Monks Farm: Construction, whether he has issued a holding direction to delay Adur District Council's granting of planning permission for the Monks Farm development; and what the timeframe is for determining whether to call in that decision.

Adur District Council have referred planning application AWDM/0961/17 to the Secretary of State under the Town and Country Planning (Consultation) (England) Direction 2009. Adur Council have agreed not to issue a planning notice while the Secretary of State's consideration is ongoing, and a holding direction has not been issued.

A decision will be issued to Adur District Council as soon as possible.