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

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 21 October 2016 to Question 49099, of the 244 of local planning authorities who have an adopted Local Plan, how many of those adopted local plans are in conformity with the contents of the National Planning Policy Framework.

The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) asked local planning authorities to review their Local Plans to ensure they took into account the policies in that framework. Where revisions were needed, authorities had 12 months from the date of publication (27 March 2012) to comply. Since the NPPF was published, 128 authorities have adopted a Local Plan or a Local Plan review. The Government has regularly made it clear that it expects Local Plans to be kept up to date and it is the responsibility of individual local planning authorities to ensure this happens.