CPRE’s response to the NPPF Consultation (issued December 2025)

CPRE broadly welcomes elements of the proposed National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) update—especially the clearer separation between plan making and decision making policies—while raising significant concerns about centralisation, weakening of environmental protections, housing delivery mechanisms, and the threat to the Green Belt.

A consistent theme of our response is the need for a brownfield first, plan-led, community centred, climate aligned planning system, with local discretion protected rather than eroded.