A question on #LocalPlans tabled by Mr Will Forster on 13-03-2025 has been answered by Jim McMahon.

Heading: Local Plans
Question ID: 1784619
UIN: 38316
House: Commons
Date tabled: 2025-03-13
Asking Member ID: 5322
Asking Member display name: Mr Will Forster
Asking Member handle: WillForster
Asking Member Twitter reference: @WillForster
Member interest: false
Question text: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how new unitary authorities will be required to (a) merge their existing local plans and (b) set new local plans following reorganisation.
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Date answered: 2025-03-21
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Is holding answer: false
Is correcting answer: false
Answering Member ID: 4569
Answering Member display name: Jim McMahon
Answering Member handle: JimfromOldham
Answering Member Twitter reference: @JimfromOldham
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Answer text: The legal status of local plans is not impacted by local government reorganisation. Where reorganisation occurs new unitary authorities are expected to promptly prepare a local plan covering the whole of their area. Until that new plan is adopted, existin...
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Answering body ID: 7
Answering body name: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tweeted: true