{"id":44746,"date":"2025-11-28T18:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44746"},"modified":"2025-11-28T18:02:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T18:02:36","slug":"government-consultation-reforms-to-the-statutory-consultee-system-to-13-01-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44746","title":{"rendered":"Government consultation: \u2018Reforms to the statutory consultee system\u2019, to 13\/01\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Government UK are seeking views on reforming the role of statutory consultees in the planning system in England. This consultation closes on 13 January 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Government UK writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Statutory consultees play an important role in the planning application process by providing expert advice on significant environmental, transport, safety, and heritage issues.&nbsp; However, local planning authorities and developers report that the statutory consultee system is not working effectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This consultation seeks views on reforming the role of statutory consultees in the planning system and covers the following proposals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>removing statutory consultee status from certain bodies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>reviewing the scope of what statutory consultees advise on<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>improving performance management across existing statutory consultee bodies in the planning system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/reforms-to-the-statutory-consultee-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/reforms-to-the-statutory-consultee-system\/reforms-to-the-statutory-consultee-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8216;Reforms to the statutory consultee system&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Respond online or by email to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"mailto:StatutoryConsulteeReforms@communities.gov.uk\">StatutoryConsulteeReforms@communities.gov.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See more at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=42515\">IHBC reacts to Government intentions to reduce statutory consultees including heritage bodies, the Theatres Trust and The Gardens Trust<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=44336\">IHBC welcomes Gardens Trust report into the role of historic parks and gardens in the 21st century<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=42504\">IHBC\u2019s Professional spotlight: Theatres Trust\u2019s response to government\u2019s plans to end statutory consultee role<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government UK are seeking views on reforming the role of statutory consultees in the planning system in England. This consultation closes on 13 January 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,30,29,16,91,261,76],"class_list":["post-44746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog","tag-consultation","tag-environment","tag-heritage","tag-planning","tag-policy","tag-safety","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44747,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44746\/revisions\/44747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}