Property Development: Carbon Emissions

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities written question – answered at on 21 March 2023.

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Photo of Rachael Maskell Rachael Maskell Labour/Co-operative, York Central

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps he is taking to encourage newly built multi-purpose development sites to be (a) carbon neutral and (b) carbon negative; and what steps he is taking to help ensure that such sites encourage the use of active transport and public transport.

Photo of Lee Rowley Lee Rowley Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities)

As set out previously, the National Planning Policy Framework is clear that the planning system should support the transition to low carbon. As committed to in the Net Zero Strategy, we will carry out a fuller review of the National Planning Policy Framework.

This will include reflecting the Government's Transport Decarbonisation Plan, to strengthen links between planning and transport.

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