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Planning newsletter
Publication Year
2025
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Provides an update on government planning activities. Covers: Housing Secretary announcement regarding development around stations; statutory consultee reforms; flexibility in support of local plan adoption; reminder to LPAs to update plan preparation timetables; Pathways to Planning applications; registering for MHCLG's Planning Skills and Capacity survey; reminder to LPAs to publish infrastructure funding statements; review of Airports National Policy Statement; update to register of compulsory purchase order decisions; reforms to Natural England's approach to delivering planning advice for public bodies; refresh of the approach to air quality consultations; recruitment challenge in local government; and launch of new coastal planning training.
Document History
Document type: guidance. First published: 24 November 2025.
Publisher Information
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.
2 Marsham Street
London
MHCLG
UK
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-and-local-government
