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Urban Areas: Regeneration

Volume 489: debated on Wednesday 11 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (1) what timetable she has set for the revision of Planning Policy Statement 6 on town centre planning; (262595)

(2) what the status of the proposed changes is to Planning Policy Statement 6, on planning for town centres; and when she plans to publish the results of the July 2008 consultation.

The proposed changes to Planning Policy Statement 6: Planning for Town Centres are currently in draft form. A revised version of the policy will be published later this spring.

A summary of the responses to the July 2008 consultation was published on the Department’s website on 4 February 2009. The information is available at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/pps6responses.pdf