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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to adopt the recommendations made in the Local Plans Expert Group report, published in March 2016.

The Local Plans Expert Group published their report on 16 March 2016, and this was open for representations until 27 April.

We are committed to streamlining the plan-making process and are carefully considering the report and representations received.