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Planning Permission

Question for Department for Communities and Local Government

UIN 216504, tabled on 1 December 2014

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will place in the Library a copy of section A85 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

Answered on

4 December 2014

A copy of the National Planning Policy Framework is available in the Library of the House and on the following website:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/6077/2116950.pdf

There is no 'section A85', but the section entitled Protecting Green Belt land includes paragraph 85 which sets out policy on how Green Belt boundaries should be defined.

Below is a link to recent Green Belt guidance:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-rules-further-strengthen-green-belt-protections

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