Policy papers and consultations

This consultation proposes changes to permitted development rights to support recreational camping, renewable energy and film-making.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 11 March 2024

• Permitted development rights: supporting temporary recreational campsites, renewable energy and film-making consultation

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This consultation seeks views on the details to the operational reforms which the government is looking to make to the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIP) consenting process.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 6 March 2024

• Consultation on operational reforms to the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project (NSIP) consenting process

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This consultation seeks views on changes to several existing permitted development rights that allow for householder development, building upwards to create new homes, the demolition of certain buildings and rebuild as homes…

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 13 February 2024

• Changes to various permitted development rights: consultation

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Consultation on changes to national planning policy to support brownfield development and reviewing the threshold for referral of applications to the Mayor of London.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 13 February 2024

Call for evidence on the government’s proposals to improve the transparency of contractual mechanisms, such as land options, use to exercise control over land.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 24 January 2024

This consultation seeks views on the government’s plans to provide a more transparent picture of controls on land through the creation of a freely accessible dataset.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 24 January 2024

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities is seeking views on how we might develop new national planning policy to support our wider objectives.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 19 December 2023

The prospectus sets out why we need to go further than the existing programme of reform for infrastructure, and how our new approach will bear down on the drivers of delay, high costs and inefficiency.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 22 November 2023

As part of the review of the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Planning (NSIP) process and all its interactions we invite views on the NSIP process.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 27 July 2023

A consultation on our proposals to make local plans (and minerals and waste plans) simpler, faster to prepare, and more accessible.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 25 July 2023

Consultation on additional flexibilities to support housing delivery, the agricultural sector, businesses, high streets and open prisons; and a call for evidence on nature-based solutions, farm efficiency projects and divers…

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 24 July 2023

Consultation on amending the compensation provisions for assessing prospective planning permission where land is compulsorily acquired.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 27 April 2023

This consultation proposes the introduction of a use class for short term lets and permitted development rights to provide flexibility where there are no local issues with such uses.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 12 April 2023

This is a technical consultation on the Infrastructure Levy, which is a reform to the existing system of developer contributions.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 17 March 2023

The Department for Levelling Up. Housing and Communities seeks views on our approach to developing Environmental Outcomes Reports to support departments in the next stage of policy development.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 17 March 2023

Cross-government action plan to deliver reforms to improve the planning system for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 23 February 2023

Consultation on proposals for reform of the planning system in England

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and 1 others
• Updated: 5 January 2023

The government are making amendments to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill to take legal powers to improve the National Significant Infrastructure Planning (NSIP) system.

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Updated: 30 August 2022

We are seeking views on changes to planning policy and regulations.

• From: Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Updated: 1 April 2021

Consultation on proposal to increase provision of Changing Places toilets.

• From: Closed organisation: Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
• Updated: 9 September 2020