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Active Travel: Planning

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Question for Department for Transport

UIN 125281, tabled on 17 January 2023

Question

Kerry McCarthy
Labour
Bristol East
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had recent discussions with the Secretary of Sate for Levelling-Up, Housing and Communities on the role of local planning authorities in England in enabling walking, wheeling and cycling.

Answer

Jesse Norman
Conservative
Hereford and South Herefordshire
Commons

Answered on

24 January 2023

The Department for Transport and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities have confirmed that Active Travel England will become a statutory consultee in the planning system from June this year. Active Travel England also provided design reviews for relevant submissions to the Levelling Up Fund. The Department for Transport will continue to support DLUHC on its consultation on the National Planning Policy Framework and would encourage all interested in these matters to respond to that consultation.

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