Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the implications for his Department's policies of the developer’s proposals for the Homebase, Manor Road application, GLA ref: 4795.

Government policy is to continue to be very selective about calling in planning applications and, in general, only if planning issues of more than local importance are involved.

This application was considered against the call in policy as set out in the Written Ministerial Statement of 26 October 2012, special report, Column 72WS, and after carefully considering the issues raised, it was decided that intervention would not be justified.