Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 15
Seventh Report - Reforms to national planning policy
Published 14 Jul 2023
Paragraph 67
Addressed to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Government plans to abolish the Duty to Cooperate without clearly setting out what it will be replaced with. This is despite the Government having agreed with our recommendation in a previous report that the Duty to Cooperate should not be abolished without a clear understanding of how it will be replaced with a new mechanism. By abolishing the Duty to Cooperate, the Government is removing another incentive for local authorities to meet their local housing need. The Government should instead be encouraging neighbouring local authorities to cooperate on housing delivery, particularly when planning development on their shared borders.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, Seventh Report - Reforms to national planning policy (HC 1122), paragraph 67, 14 July 2023
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 29 November 2023 (deadline 14 September 2023).