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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, for what reason his Department did not publish the Viability Assessment for the Westferry Printworks planning proposal before the public inquiry of August 2019.

Decisions on called in applications and recovered appeals are made on the basis of evidence submitted by parties, and the report and recommendation of the planning Inspector. In this case, the viability assessment undertaken by the appellant was the subject of evidence given by parties to the inquiry. Viability is considered in detail in the Inspector’s report.