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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, how many article 4 direction requests his Department has received from local authorities over the last year.

184 article 4 directions have been submitted to the Secretary of State by local authorities in accordance with Schedule 3 of The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 in the last year.