Consultations

Cumbria Devolution Consultation

This consultation seeks views on a proposal to form a Mayoral Combined Authority for the local government areas in Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness . In December 2024, the government published the English Devolution White Paper . This sets out plans to move power out of Westminster...

Closes 13 April 2025

Cheshire and Warrington Devolution Consultation

This consultation seeks views on a proposal to form a Mayoral Combined Authority for the local government areas in Cheshire East, Cheshire West, Chester and Warrington. In December 2024, the government published the English Devolution White Paper . This sets out plans to move power out of...

Closes 13 April 2025

Greater Essex Devolution Consultation

This consultation seeks views on a proposal to form a Mayoral Combined County Authority for the local government areas in Essex, Southend on Sea and Thurrock. In December 2024, the government published the English Devolution White Paper . This sets out plans to move power out of...

Closes 13 April 2025

Hampshire and the Solent Devolution Consultation

This consultation seeks views on a proposal to form a Mayoral Combined County Authority for the local government areas of Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton and Isle of Wight. In December 2024, the government published the English Devolution White Paper . This sets out plans to move...

Closes 13 April 2025

Norfolk and Suffolk Devolution Consultation

This consultation seeks views on a proposal to form a Mayoral Combined County Authority for the local government areas of Norfolk and Suffolk. In December 2024, the government published the English Devolution White Paper . This sets out plans to move power out of Westminster and back to...

Closes 13 April 2025

Sussex and Brighton Devolution Consultation

This consultation seeks views on a proposal to form a Mayoral Combined County Authority for the local government areas in East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton . In December 2024, the government published the English Devolution White Paper . This sets out plans to move power out of...

Closes 13 April 2025

Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act – Consultation

Topic of this consultation: This consultation seeks views on the implementation of measures in the Supported Housing (Regulatory Oversight) Act 2023. It focuses on the detail of a licensing regime and National Supported Housing Standards and includes content on Housing Benefit. Scope of...

Closes 15 May 2025

Construction Products Reform Green Paper

The tragedy at Grenfell Tower and the two subsequent independent reviews, conducted by Dame Judith Hackitt and Paul Morrell and Anneliese Day, exposed significant failures in the construction products regulatory system, revealing institutional failures that allowed profit to come before safety. ...

Closes 21 May 2025

LRO to allow applications for absent voting for devolved elections in Scotland and Wales to be made online

Topic of this consultation: This consultation paper is issued on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and sets out the proposal to pass legislation to insert regulation making powers making it possible for...

Funding Arrangements for the Homelessness Prevention Grant for 2026/27 onwards

Topic of this consultation: This consultation seeks views on the approach to the funding arrangements for the Homelessness Prevention Grant for 2026/27 onwards. Scope of this consultation: This consultation seeks views on the approach to the Homelessness Prevention Grant provided...

Closed 11 March 2025

Planning Reform Working Paper: Brownfield Passport

The government is committed to getting Britain building again. This paper forms part of a series of working papers on different aspects of planning reform, designed to inform further policy development in collaboration with the wider sector. It proposes options for a form of brownfield...

Closed 28 February 2025

Planning Reform Working Paper: Streamlining Infrastructure Planning

This paper proposes a number of measures that could be taken to streamline the consenting process for national infrastructure and to enable faster decision-making, whilst ensuring the process is fair and certain. Sustained economic growth is central to this Government’s Plan for Change and is...

Closed 26 February 2025

Strengthening the standards and conduct framework for local authorities in England

This consultation seeks views on introducing measures to strengthen the standards and conduct regime in England and ensure consistency of approach amongst councils investigating serious breaches of their member codes of conduct, including the introduction of the power of suspension. Who we...

Closed 26 February 2025

Consultation on Reforms to the Energy Performance of Buildings Regime

Government is committed to reforming the Energy Performance of Buildings regime to provide a system which: Provides homeowners and tenants with accurate information about the energy performance of their homes to allow them to make informed investment and purchase decisions. Provides...

Closed 26 February 2025