Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if his Department will issue guidance on the extent of the powers of National Development Management Policies..

The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill - currently being scrutinised in the other place - sets out the proposed legal basis for National Development Management Policies, including their consultation requirements. We are currently consulting on changes to national planning policy. The prospectus consults on a range of changes to national planning policy that are intended to introduce greater clarity on the circumstances in which local authorities can adjust the number of homes planned for to account for local circumstances. We will carefully analyse the responses to the consultation, and any subsequent changes in policy will be confirmed when the Framework is updated later in 2023.