Consultations

Claims Management Activity in Housing Disrepair: Call for Evidence

This call for evidence seeks views on cases where tenants consider seeking redress through the County Court by bringing a claim against their landlord for housing disrepair, and the role of claims management activity. In housing disrepair and other types of cases, organisations such as...

Closes 12 February 2026

Overnight Visitor Levy consultation

Summary This consultation seeks views on the design of a new Mayoral power to create visitor levies on overnight stays in England. Scope of this consultation: The government is giving Mayoral Strategic Authorities in England the power to create local overnight visitor...

Closes 18 February 2026

Proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system 

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is seeking views on how we might revise national planning policy to support our wider objectives. Alongside this consultation document, a draft National Planning Policy Framework (“the Framework”) has been published here . This...

Closes 10 March 2026

Design and Placemaking Planning Practice Guidance Public Consultation

Topic of this consultation: The Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government is seeking views on the usability of our proposed consolidation of the Design and Placemaking Planning Practice Guidance. Scope of this consultation: This draft Planning Practice Guidance (PPG) is...

Closes 10 March 2026

Reducing the prevalence of private estate management arrangements

Scope of this consultation Topic of this consultation The consultation focuses on tackling the growing issue of unadopted amenities on privately managed housing estates in England, where roads, drainage systems, green spaces, and other communal infrastructure are...

Closes 12 March 2026

Enhanced protections for homeowners on freehold estates

Scope of this consultation Topic of this consultation This consultation sets out wide-ranging proposals to give better rights and protection for homeowners living on privately managed estates and to address the considerable injustices they face. This includes the introduction...

Closes 12 March 2026

Moving to commonhold: consultation on banning leasehold for new flats

This consultation sets out the government’s proposed approach to introducing a ban on the use of leasehold for new flats so that the reformed commonhold model can be the default tenure for new flats. It seeks views from industry and consumers on questions relating to scope, exemptions,...

Closes 24 April 2026

Improving Proportionality and Building Safety Outcomes in Building Control: Telecommunications work

This consultation seeks views on proposals to streamline the building control procedural requirements for the following types of building work within the higher-risk building regime: fibre optic cabling and mobile masts. In the case of building work to fibre optic infrastructure, the consultation ...

Low-interest Loans - Registered Provider Survey

The Spending Review sets out that there will be £2.5 billion in low-interest loans to support new social and affordable housing development, to complement commercial lending. Loans will be provided at interest rates materially lower than the rates available on the market. Our plan for a...

Development Management Funding 2025/6

In order to meet the government's 1.5 million homes and economic growth amibitions, it is essential that planning applications move through the system as quickly as possible, particularly those at the post-permission stage, where housing has the potential to be delivered more quickly but reserved...

Closed 29 January 2026

Consultation to Reform Building Control Charges

The regulations for charges for Local Authority Building Control services were last updated significantly in 2010 and therefore do not reflect the various changes to the Building Act and building regulations following the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017. Therefore, this consultation proposes...

Closed 25 January 2026

​​Consultation on the proposed London Housing Emergency Measures

The Government is consulting on a proposed time-limited relief from the Community Infrastructure Levy for eligible developments in Greater London (Part I) and on permanent changes to the Mayor of London’s existing planning powers to strengthen oversight of planning applications of potential...

Closed 22 January 2026

Provisional local government finance settlement: England, 2026 to 2027

This consultation seeks views on the proposals for the Local Government Finance Settlement for 2026-27. The Local Government Finance Settlement (‘the Settlement’) is the annual process through which central government allocates funding to local government for the provision of local services...

Closed 14 January 2026

Reforms to the statutory consultee system

This consultation seeks views on reforming the role of statutory consultees in the planning system and covers the following key proposals: Removing statutory consultee status from certain bodies Reviewing the scope of what statutory consultees advise on; and ...

Closed 13 January 2026