Correspondence

Local Plan examinations: letter to the Chief Executive of the Planning Inspectorate (October 2025)

This letter lays out the government’s expectations on the exercise of flexibility in the examination of local plans submitted within the current plan-making system.

• From: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Matthew Pennycook MP
• Published: 9 October 2025

Applies to England

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Local Plan examinations: letter to the Chief Executive of the Planning Inspectorate (October 2025)

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The Minister of State for Housing and Planning, Matthew Pennycook MP, has written to the Planning Inspectorate to outline his expectation that local plans submitted in the current plan-making system should be treated with an appropriate degree of flexibility.

Published 9 October 2025