Consultation Response: National Planning Policy Framework

UKGBC responds to the new Government's NPPF consultation.

National and Regional Collaboration Policy Document

Written by UKGBC

We welcome this NPPF consultation and congratulate the Government for bringing it forward so quickly after so much delay. Updating the planning system is urgent. It provides a crucial opportunity to ensure all planning strategies and decisions contribute towards, not pull against, the Government’s ambitions and legal obligations to achieve a zero-carbon future, protect households, communities, businesses and the wider economy from climate impacts and restore nature. In this context, the NPPF proposals including a new ‘Grey Belt’ designation and the reinstatement of a five-year housing land supply requirement will need to go much further to reflect the Government’s own stated urgency and commitment to decarbonise the economy, restore nature and deliver energy security and climate resilience.

In this response, drawn from wide consultation with our members, we advocate for a clear legal alignment with the Climate Change and Environment Acts in the forthcoming Planning Bill and much stronger new building standards to put the country on track for success.

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