Planning Permission

(asked on 29th June 2015) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to make viability studies for planning applications more transparent and open to the public and interested stakeholders.


Answered by
Brandon Lewis Portrait
Brandon Lewis
This question was answered on 2nd July 2015

National planning guidance was amended in March 2015 to encourage the speeding up of section 106 negotiations, including promoting greater transparency of viability evidence and of the level of contributions received and how these are used.

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