questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if he will take steps to ensure that planning decisions affecting villages in Yeovil constituency adequately protect their (a) local character, (b) historic setting and (c) surrounding landscapes.
answerText: Paragraphs 82-84 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) set out how planning policies and decisions should apply in respect of rural housing. Between 16 December 2025 and 10 March 2026, we consulted on a new NPPF. That proposed Framework, which ...
heading: Planning: Yeovil