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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the (a) effect on and (b) additional costs incurred by (i) local planning authorities and (ii) qualifying bodies producing a Neighbourhood Development Plan of undertaking assessments of the implications for European Sites of those plans.

Officials from my Department are aware of the judgment and are continuing to monitor a range of implications. No formal assessment has been made of the likely costs of the ruling for Local Planning Authorities or Qualifying Bodies.