questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to his Department's document entitled Planning applications in England: April to June 2025 - statistical release, published on 18 September 2025, what assessment his Department has made of the reasons for the declines of (a) 5 per cent for planning permission applications compared to the same quarter last year, (b) 5 per cent in granted decisions compared to the year ending June 2024, and (c) 9 per cent in granted residential applications compared to the year ending June 2024.
answerText: The individual factors affecting changes in quarterly planning statistics are complex and difficult to disentangle. My Department’s initial assessment is that a combination of structural, economic, and operational factors best explain the Q2 2025 results....
heading: Planning Permission