Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether any mechanism is in place for communities to prevent previously refused planning applications being repeatedly re-submitted in a slightly different form.
Local planning authorities have powers to decline applications if they have previously refused permission for two or more substantially similar applications on the same site, or if a substantially similar application has been rejected by the Secretary of State on appeal or following call-in, within the past two years. These powers are set out in Sections 70A and 70B of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended).