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Planning Permission: Nature Conservation

Asked by Michelle WelshLabourMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 12 June 2026UIN 6930

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his Department plans to amend Part 4 of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 to ensure that ecology surveys have to be compl

Answered by Matthew Pennycook

My Department has no such plans. The government continues to keep permitted development rights under review.

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