A briefing for the House of Commons Report Stage (June 2025)
The TCPA is committed to a democratic planning system that prioritises the health and wellbeing of people and the natural environment. The TCPA provided detailed evidence as to why the Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB) fails to deliver on those objectives and is particularly damaging to local democratic accountability.
During the Committee Stage of the Bill, the Government rejected a range of positive
amendments on healthy homes, climate change and ensuring people have a voice in planning. The Government’s justification for rejecting these ideas was in two parts. First, that deregulating planning will support the volume housebuilders. Second, that national planning policy already supports objectives around health, climate and sustainable development.
The TCPA has made it clear that the planning system produces many more consents each year than volume housebuilders deliver. We are also clear that national planning policy fails to uphold the minimum safeguards on health, climate and democracy.
