Secretary of State decision process
Secretary of State decision process
The 2025 planning inquiry documents, transcripts and videos are here
An overview of the 2024 planning applications is here
On Wednesday 22 October 2025, during the morning session it was announced that the decision has been recovered by the Secretary of State. The letter from the Planning Inspectorate is here.
On the last day of the Inquiry the Planning Inspector indicated that he would deliver his report to the Secretary of State in early January. However our latest information as at 30 March is that the report is due for delivery on 31 March 2026 and that the SoS has up to twelve weeks to issue his decision.
On December 11 members of the SBL campaign wrote to their local MP Rushanara Ali. On 26 January she replied with a letter from Steve Reed, Secretary of State.
letter from SBL -11/12/25
letter from Steve Reed - 22/1/26