Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what proportion of land is covered by a neighbourhood plan.
My Department does not collect information on the proportion of land covered by neighbourhood plans. There are now almost 1,500 designated neighbourhood planning areas. 222 local planning authorities in England (66% of the total) include at least one designated neighbourhood planning area.
We estimate that over 8 million people live within a neighbourhood area, representing around 15% of the population in England.