Consultations

Homes for Ukraine eligible minors survey

About this survey This survey will help us understand how you currently use Foundry to manage your eligible minor cases on the Homes for Ukraine scheme. Overview This survey will take around 5 minutes to complete. You can save and return to the survey at any point. Your...

Closes 4 July 2025

Planning Reform Working Paper: Speeding Up Build Out

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

Closes 7 July 2025

Technical consultation on implementing measures to improve Build Out transparency

This technical consultation sets out the rationale for implementing the new statutory build out information requirements and the power to decline to determine applications, including setting out the importance of build out and the government’s plan to improve build out transparency. It then goes...

Closes 7 July 2025

Planning Reform Working Paper: Reforming Site Thresholds

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 reforming site...

Closes 9 July 2025

Reform of planning committees: technical consultation

Further to the introduction of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, this consultation seeks views on proposals to modernise planning committees, including the national delegation of planning functions, the size and composition of planning committees and mandatory training for members of planning...

Closes 23 July 2025

Consultation on Proposals for Local Government Reorganisation in Surrey

This statutory consultation seeks views on the proposals that the Minister of State for Local Government and English Devolution, Jim McMahon MP OBE, has received following the Secretary of State’s invitation to councils in Surrey to submit proposals for unitary local government. You can find full...

Closes 5 August 2025

Local Government Pension Scheme in England and Wales - Access and Fairness

Ministerial foreword This government cares about the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS). We care about the impact it can have at scale, unleashing growth and supporting critical investment in the UK. We also care about the personal experience of the millions of individual members that...

Closes 7 August 2025

Fair Funding Review 2.0

This consultation seeks views on the approach to determining new funding allocations for local authorities, and fire and rescue authorities, building on the local authority funding reform: objectives and principles consultation which the government has provided a summary to in...

Closes 15 August 2025

Modernising and improving the administration of council tax

Topic of the consultation: This consultation seeks views on modernising the administration of council tax, including improving how council tax is billed and how payments are collected and enforced. Scope of the consultation: This...

Closes 12 September 2025

Local authority funding reform - Resetting the business rates retention system

This technical consultation seeks views on the approach to delivering a business rates reset, updating government’s assessment of how much business rates are available through updating business rates baselines. The consultation can be found at: Local authority funding reform – Resetting...

Closed 2 June 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. ...

Closed 21 May 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...

Closed 15 May 2025

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...

Closed 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...

Closed 13 April 2025