questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to page 54 of the Defence Industrial Strategy: Making Defence an Engine for Growth, published on 8 September 2025, when he plans to issue updated procedures to enable the use of the (a) Crown Development and (b) Urgent Crown Development routes.
answerText: The Crown Development planning regulations in England came into force on 1 May 2025. The government has no current plans to change those regulations. The reference to updated procedures in the Defence Industrial Strategy relates to how the Ministry of Hou...
heading: Crown Lands and Estates: Planning Permission