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1082536

registered interest
date	06/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Green Belt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his letter to Conservative Members of Parliament dated 7 February 2019, what plans he has to strengthen policy on intentional unauthorised development; what the timetable is for the delivery of those plans; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
uin	229077
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government amended national planning policy in August 2015 to make intentional unauthorised development a material consideration in the determination of planning applications and appeals. In April 2018 the Government consulted on the range of powers available to local authorities, the police and landowners for dealing with unauthorised development and encampments. In our response to that consultation, published in February 2019, we committed to strengthening policy on intentional unauthorised development and will consult on proposed measures shortly. This forms part of a comprehensive package of measures announced in February 2019, which includes:</p><ul><li>stronger powers for the police to respond to unauthorised encampments;</li><li>practical and financial support for local authorities to deal with unauthorised encampments;</li><li>support for traveller-site provision; and</li><li>support for the travelling community to improve life chances.</li></ul><p> </p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 14/03/2019 15:00:31 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald

1081155

registered interest
date	04/03/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Green Belt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	What his policy is on house building on the green belt.
tabling member constituency	Amber Valley
tabling member printed	Nigel Mills
uin	909534
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/03/2019 answer text <p>The Government remains committed to protecting the areas that communities value, including the Green Belt. I cannot comment on plans undergoing examination, including Amber Valley, but national policy is clear that Green Belt should only be used for housing as a last resort, and if exceptional circumstances exist.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 04/03/2019 16:45:38 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4136 label Biography information for Nigel Mills

1057093

registered interest
date	08/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Green Belt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many housing units have been approved on land formerly used as greenbelt in each of the last three years.
tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
uin	218832
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/02/2019 answer text <p>The requested information is not gathered or held centrally</p><p><br> Statistics on changes in the amount of Green Belt land in England are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-belt-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-belt-statistics</a>. These statistics include information on where Green Belt designation has been changes as part of the planning process and the reason for this change as provided by the local authority.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 18/02/2019 17:32:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

1056671

registered interest
date	07/02/2019
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Green Belt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what proportion of green belt land is under consideration for development in the most recent period for which figures are available.
tabling member constituency	South Holland and The Deepings
tabling member printed	Sir John Hayes
uin	218187
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/02/2019 answer text <p>Decisions on future development on Green Belt land are made by local planning authorities as part of the local planning process. The requested information is not gathered or held centrally. Any data used as basis for an answer would be unreliable, because at any stage of the Local Plan process a local authority may revise its consideration of how much land, and where, to propose for allocation for future development.</p><p> </p><p>The Department does publish statistics on changes in the amount of Green Belt land in England. These are available at <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-belt-statistics" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/green-belt-statistics</a>.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 14/02/2019 15:00:04 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes

999546

registered interest
date	01/11/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Green Belt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, pursuant to Answer of 29 October 2018 to Question 181533 on Planning Permission, whether intentional unauthorised development is still a material consideration in cases involving land outside the Green Belt.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
uin	186912
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/11/2018 answer text <p>The Written Ministerial Statement (HCWS423) regarding Green Belt protection and intentional unauthorised development, made by my Right Hon Friend the Member for Great Yarmouth on 17 December 2015, is still a potential material consideration in a planning case, whether or not the land is within a Green Belt.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 05/11/2018 17:48:23 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald

991190

registered interest
date	19/10/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Green Belt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether it remains Government policy that intentional unauthorised development should be a material planning consideration under the new National Planning Policy Framework.
tabling member constituency	North East Hertfordshire
tabling member printed	Sir Oliver Heald
uin	181533
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/10/2018 answer text <p>The Written Ministerial Statement (HCWS423) regarding Green Belt protection and intentional unauthorised development, made by my Right Hon Friend the Member for Great Yarmouth on 17 December 2015, is still a potential material consideration in a planning case.</p> answering member constituency North West Hampshire answering member printed Kit Malthouse question first answered 29/10/2018 14:55:25 answering member 4495 label Biography information for Kit Malthouse
tabling member	69 label Biography information for Sir Oliver Heald

850122

registered interest
date	26/02/2018
answering body	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Housing, Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Green Belt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the Government intends to revise its local planning guidance for the Green Belt.
tabling member constituency	Mitcham and Morden
tabling member printed	Siobhain McDonagh
uin	129690
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/03/2018 answer text <p>This Government has a clear manifesto commitment to maintain strong protections for Green Belt. This will be carried forward in the revision of the National Planning Policy Framework, which was published for consultation on 5 March 2018. We will review the draft Framework in the light of the consultation responses we receive, before issuing the new Framework later in the year. At the same time we will consider what supporting guidance will be necessary.</p> answering member constituency Esher and Walton answering member printed Dominic Raab question first answered 06/03/2018 12:48:08 answering member 4007 label Biography information for Dominic Raab
tabling member	193 label Biography information for Dame Siobhain McDonagh

802697

registered interest
date	07/12/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Green Belt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, pursuant to the Answer of 6 December to Question 117028, what assessment he has made of whether alterations made by local authorities to the shape of their green belts have been consistent with the criteria set out in his answer.
tabling member constituency	Sefton Central
tabling member printed	Bill Esterson
uin	118246
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/12/2017 answer text <p>Under the National Planning Policy Framework, local authorities can alter the shape of their Green Belt only in exceptional circumstances. They do this through their Local Plan. This involves rigorous consultation in public and consideration by a planning inspector at examination, who then makes a formal determination on whether the submitted Plan is sound. It is for each Plan to be found sound if it is properly prepared, justified, effective and consistent with national policy in the Framework.</p><p>In the Housing White Paper, <em>Fixing our broken housing market</em>, we recognised the need for more clarity on the exceptional circumstances in which a Green Belt boundary change can be proposed and consulted on a criteria. We are currently considering the responses and will implement any policy changes in a revision of the National Planning Policy Framework as soon as practicable in 2018.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 12/12/2017 16:52:11 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	4061 label Biography information for Bill Esterson

800503

registered interest
date	04/12/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Green Belt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether the Government has any plans to widen the duty to cooperate to include a requirement for councils to consider together the long-term strategic function of the Green Belt and not proceed only on a site by site basis.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	117124
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2017 answer text <p>Many areas of Green Belt cross local authority boundaries, and the creation or alteration of Green Belt has always been a strategic matter on which all local authorities involved liaise and work together. The National Planning Policy Framework clearly expects local authorities to ensure that Green Belt is consistent with the Local Plans of adjoining areas, and that Green Belt land continues to fulfil the purposes of Green Belt.</p><p>In the Housing White Paper, <em>Fixing our broken housing market,</em> we proposed that a local authority should be able to adjust a Green Belt boundary only when it can show that it has examined all other reasonable options for meeting identified development needs. These options are:</p><ul><li><p>making effective use of suitable brownfield sites and the opportunities offered by estate regeneration</p></li><li><p>the potential offered by land which is currently underused, including surplus public sector land where appropriate</p></li><li><p>optimising the proposed density of development</p></li><li><p>exploring whether other authorities can help to meet some of the identified development requirement</p></li></ul><p>My Department has been analysing the consultation responses on this proposed clarification, and will announce our conclusions as soon as possible in 2018, when we will also issue a revised National Planning Policy Framework.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma question first answered 07/12/2017 17:44:51 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps

798634

registered interest
date	01/12/2017
answering body	Department for Communities and Local Government
answering dept id	7
answering dept short name	Communities and Local Government
answering dept sort name	Communities and Local Government
hansard heading	Green Belt
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department's policy on supporting the Green Belt has changed since his Department published its National Planning Policy Framework in 2012; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Welwyn Hatfield
tabling member printed	Grant Shapps
uin	117028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2017 answer text <p>Ministers recently reaffirmed the Government’s clear manifesto commitment to maintaining the strong protections for Green Belt, which are set out in the National Planning Policy Framework. The Framework makes clear that a local authority may alter the shape of its Green Belt only in exceptional circumstances, using the Local Plan process. The Framework does not define ‘exceptional circumstances’. However, in the Housing White Paper, <em>Fixing our broken housing market</em>, we proposed that a local authority should be able to adjust a Green Belt boundary only when it demonstrates that it has examined all other reasonable options for meeting its identified development needs<strong>,</strong> including:</p><p>- effective use of suitable brownfield land;</p><p>- the potential offered by under-used land;</p><p>- optimising the density of development; and</p><p>- exploring whether other authorities can help to meet some of the identified development requirement.</p><p>We have been analysing the consultation responses on this proposed clarification, and will announce our conclusions as soon as possible in 2018.</p><p>Since records began in 1997, Green Belt has continued to cover around 13 per cent of England, and overall we consider that national policy has successfully restrained urban sprawl. Where necessary, a local authority in consultation with the community can propose a Green Belt boundary change, as part of its Local Plan process, but the revised Plan is subject to rigorous, formal examination by a planning inspector before it is adopted.</p><p>The Framework is not law, but the law does require local authorities engaged in Plan-making to have regard to the Framework.</p> answering member constituency Reading West answering member printed Alok Sharma grouped question UIN 117029 117030 117031 question first answered 06/12/2017 17:46:37 answering member 4014 label Biography information for Sir Alok Sharma
tabling member	1582 label Biography information for Grant Shapps