[Relevant document: Correspondence from the Chair of the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee to the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, on the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill, reported to the House on 24 August 2022, HC 309.]
Further consideration of Bill, as amended in the Public Bill Committee
New Clause 48
Condition relating to development progress reports
(2) In section 56(3) (time when development begun), after ‘89,’ insert ‘90B,’.
(3) Before section 91 (including the italic heading before that section) insert—
‘Development progress reports
90B Condition relating to development progress reports in England
(1) This section applies where relevant planning permission is granted for relevant residential development in England.
(2) The relevant planning permission must be granted subject to a condition that a development progress report must be provided to the local planning authority in whose area the development is to be carried out for each reporting period.
(3) The first reporting period in relation to the development is to be a period—
(a) beginning at a prescribed time or by reference to a prescribed event, and
(b) during which the development is begun.
(4) A new reporting period is to begin immediately after the end of a reporting period which is not the last reporting period.
(5) A reporting period which is not the last reporting period is to be a period of 12 months.
(6) The last reporting period is to be a period ending with the day on which the development is completed (subject to any provision made under subsection (9)).
(7) A “development progress report”, in relation to relevant residential development, means a report which sets out—
(a) the progress that has been made, and that remains to be made, towards completing the dwellings the creation of which the development is to involve, as at the end of the reporting period to which the report relates,