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Westminster Hall
Housing Development: Cumulative Impacts - Wed 17 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Will Forster (LD - Woking) We have given planning permission for well over 2,000 properties, which are not being built. - Speech Link
2: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) Yesterday, we were debating quarrying and planning—it was a blast. - Speech Link
3: Gideon Amos (LD - Taunton and Wellington) permission, against the advice of the Environment Agency, in flood risk areas. - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Quarries: Planning Policy - Tue 16 Dec 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Adam Jogee (Lab - Newcastle-under-Lyme) Even when technically compliant, planning permission does not guarantee that a waste site in a former - Speech Link
2: Lee Barron (Lab - Corby and East Northamptonshire) Here is the problem: when planning permission was granted, people were given all sorts of promises about - Speech Link
3: Samantha Dixon (Lab - Chester North and Neston) planning authorities. - Speech Link
4: Samantha Dixon (Lab - Chester North and Neston) planning authorities. - Speech Link
5: Alberto Costa (Con - South Leicestershire) planning authorities. - Speech Link
6: Paul Holmes (Con - Hamble Valley) planning authorities. - Speech Link
7: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) planning authorities. - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Report stage part two - Mon 20 Oct 2025
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Viscount Hanworth (Lab - Excepted Hereditary) The time that it takes, on average, to secure planning permission, known as development consent, for - Speech Link
2: None permission.(5) The regulations may, in relation to a planning application relating to a wind generating - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Farming and Food Security - Tue 08 Oct 2024
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: Steve Barclay (Con - North East Cambridgeshire) The Energy Secretary has already walked all over him, granting permission for a whole load of solar farms - Speech Link
2: John Whitby (Lab - Derbyshire Dales) constituency.The main industries in the dales are, unsurprisingly, tourism, leisure and hospitality, quarrying - Speech Link
3: Ben Goldsborough (Lab - South Norfolk) I hope that my Front-Bench colleagues will work with me to secure planning reform on this issue, so that - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill
Report stage - Tue 18 Jul 2023
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: None on changes that would make clear that local planning authorities should give greater weight to planning - Speech Link
2: Earl Howe (CON - Excepted Hereditary) Moreover, once the local plan is adopted and sites are allocated, planning permission must still be sought - Speech Link
3: Baroness Willis of Summertown (CB - Life peer) It means that we are currently seeing planning permission being granted in national parks and areas of - Speech Link


Grand Committee
Energy Bill [HL]
Committee stage - Mon 16 Jan 2023
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Mentions:
1: None , that framework applies only to land planning decisions, not those at sea. - Speech Link
2: None At what stage will planning permission be sought for those overhead power lines, particularly for offshore - Speech Link
3: None At what stage will permission be sought for those pylons? - Speech Link
4: Baroness Blake of Leeds (LAB - Life peer) , I really struggle with leaving these decisions to the planning system. - Speech Link


Commons Chamber
Quarries (Planning) - Wed 01 Dec 2021
No Department present

Mentions:
1: Matt Western (LAB - Warwick and Leamington) approving quarry development in close proximity to settlements; to require the risks of proposed quarrying - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Agriculture Bill
Committee stage:Committee: 3rd sitting (Hansard) - Tue 14 Jul 2020
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Mentions:
1: None Where works are not for agricultural purposes, an application for planning permission may be required - Speech Link
2: Lord Thomas of Gresford (LDEM - Life peer) The new project near the Wrexham industrial estate is still at the planning stage. - Speech Link
3: None What will the guidance be for those planning mass gatherings next year? - Speech Link


Lords Chamber
Business and Planning Bill
2nd reading (Hansard) - Mon 06 Jul 2020
Leader of the House

Mentions:
1: Lord Bilimoria (CB - Life peer) Businesses have welcomed the Government’s temporary extensions to planning permission periods and consents.From - Speech Link
2: Baroness Andrews (LAB - Life peer) Regarding the Bill’s clauses on planning, I welcome the extension of planning permission and listed buildings - Speech Link
3: Lord Campbell of Pittenweem (LDEM - Life peer) permission extensions or outlying planning permissions extensions, already engaged in responding to - Speech Link
4: Lord Kennedy of Southwark (LAB - Life peer) and reform, rather than dealing with the hundreds of thousands of planning permission applications that - Speech Link


Westminster Hall
Lea Castle Farm Quarry - Tue 17 Mar 2020
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Mentions:
1: Mark Garnier (CON - Wyre Forest) His father previously applied to secure planning permission for the site to be a golf course; although - Speech Link
2: Christopher Pincher (IND - Tamworth) authority, when deciding whether to grant planning permission for a project that could have significant - Speech Link