Planning Permission: Standards
(asked on 29th November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the comparative effectiveness of the planning systems in (1) England, (2) Scotland, (3) Wales, and (4) Northern Ireland.
Answered by
Baroness Scott of Bybrook
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)
This question was answered on 13th December 2022
The government has not made an assessment on the comparative effectiveness of the planning systems in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The Secretary of State recently made a statement on further changes to the planning system, which I repeated in this House. The statement is available (attached) here.