Source · Select Committees · Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 3
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Government lacks clear planning reform timetable and fails to evaluate past NPPF changes.
Recommendation
The Government has not been clear on the timetable for its many planning consultations and when its reforms will be implemented. Nor has the Government sufficiently evaluated the impact of its past NPPF changes to inform its current reform proposals. There is a strong case that the Department should conduct impact assessments of past NPPF changes, which would inform future reform proposals. Given that the Department is currently considering 26,000 responses to the December 2022 consultation, and is conducting at least nine further consultations on planning reform, we do not believe resource constraints should prevent the Department from conducting these impact assessments.
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Government Response
A response document is linked to this report, dated 29 November 2023. Response attribution to this conclusion has not been verified. Read the response document ↗