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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what the timetable is for the Government to publish a response to the consultation on Planning reform: supporting the high street and increasing the delivery of new homes, with particular respect to the sections relating to the expansion of permitted development rights.

Our recent consultation Planning Reform: Supporting the high street and increasing delivery of new homes set out a package of proposals to simplify and speed up the planning system, make effective use of land, help high streets to adapt and diversify and deliver more homes through new permitted development rights and changes to the Use Classes Order.

We are currently considering the responses received to the consultation. Decisions will be taken shortly on the consultation proposals to be taken forward.