Sixth Delegated Legislation Committee

17 juin 2026

Sixth Delegated Legislation Committee House of Commons

00:05 - 00:14
Intervenant 2
Order.  The draft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026.  I call the Minister to move the motion. 
00:14 - 02:08
Intervenant 4
Thank you, Ms Jardine.  It's a pleasure to serve with you in the chair.  I beg to move that the Committee has considered the draft Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2026, which were laid before the House on the 27th of April.  Ms Jardine, the Government was clear in its manifesto that housing need in England cannot be met without planning for growth on a larger than local scale.  That's why we committed to introducing effective new mechanisms for cross-boundary strategic planning. 

To honour that commitment, we legislated for an England-wide system of strategic plan-making in the Planning and Infrastructure Act, which received Royal Assent in December last year.  The Act inserted a new Part 1A into the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.  This places a requirement on strategic planning authorities, be they mayoral or non-mayoral strategic authorities, or upper-tier county councils and unitary authorities, most of which but not necessarily all will be grouped together, to prepare a document called a spatial development strategy, or SDS.  An SDS will form part of the development plan which local planning authorities must determine planning applications in accordance with, unless material considerations indicate otherwise.  Local plans produced by local planning authorities will be required to be in general conformity with the relevant spatial development strategy. 

SDSs, as we discussed throughout the progress of the Bill in Committee, are not big local plans.  Instead, they'll be high-level spatial frameworks for housing growth and infrastructure investment across sub-regional areas.  They will be able to identify broad locations for development and establish the infrastructure required to support it.  And they'll be able to redistribute housing and other development needs between local planning authorities.  Ms Jardine, the regulations before us make two minor consequential amendments to support the implementation of the new strategic plan-making system, which we intend to commence later this year through a package of regulations. 

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