Planning Reform Debate

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Department: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Liz Jarvis

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Electoral Resilience

Planning Reform

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Points of Order
Tuesday 16th December 2025

(1 day, 8 hours ago)

Commons Chamber
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Liz Jarvis Portrait Liz Jarvis (Eastleigh) (LD)
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I welcome the explicit protections for chalk streams—something I have long campaigned for, as the River Itchen runs through my constituency. Will the Minister also guarantee that local plans will be strengthened by the NPPF overhaul and that community input will not be undermined?

Matthew Pennycook Portrait Matthew Pennycook
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We want to see more community input, particularly upstream in the development of local plans. The Government are committed to driving local plans to adoption; we want to see universal coverage of local plans. The clear rules-based policies in this draft framework will help with the new plan-making system that we announced just weeks ago to ensure that we can drive up coverage in this Parliament.

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