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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to help ensure that local communities can participate in decisions on what is built in their neighbourhood.

Our reforms to planning put local communities – and local plans – at the heart of decision making. The Government recognises the time and commitment communities put into their neighbourhood plans. Our recent updates to the National Planning Policy Framework mean that neighbourhood plans that meet their identified housing requirement are now better protected from speculative development.