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Property Development: Planning Permission

Asked by Lewis CockingConservativeMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 30 January 2026UIN 107802

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps he is taking to help ensure local planning authorities enforce Construction Environmental Management Plans.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook

Construction environmental management plans are usually required by conditions imposed on the grant of planning permission.

Local planning authorities already have a wide range of powers to deal with breaches of planning condition. It is for authorities themselves to decide when and how they use those powers.

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