All Permitted development articles
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NewsPolicy Exchange urges government to focus on urban planning
Influential think tank says new Housing and Planning Bill should be used to ‘regain initiative’ from Labour
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NewsNational park bosses slam Gove’s permitted development plans
Government consulting on letting rural landowners convert barns without planning consent
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NewsGovernment refuses to pause permitted development roll-out
Chair of committee calls department’s response to recommendations ‘disappointing’
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NewsUrban Village reveals £69m office to resi plans
Sutton Coldfield-based developer plans to convert a Buckinghamshire office block into 237 flats
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NewsMPs say housing PDR will ‘unbalance’ high streets
Select committee report finds government had ‘insufficient evidence’ to press ahead with new residential permitted development right
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NewsGovernment to face legal challenge over PD rights expansion next week
Campaigners against planning deregulation want to see new rights quashed
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NewsNew housing design tsar criticised for support for PD
Beauty advocate Nicholas Boys Smith accused of piloting “Trojan horse” for planning deregulation
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NewsCouncils look to prevent high street resi conversions
Authorities line up to make ‘article 4 directions’ to exempt areas from permitted development rules
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NewsFour out of five high street properties ripe for resi conversion
Controversial permitted development conversion rights and new fire safety tests for high rises have come in to force
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NewsMPs call for halt to roll out of new PD right
Select committee says wide-ranging new resi conversion right should not be introduced until review undertaken
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NewsLabour introduces ‘use it or lose it’ planning bill
Proposed legislation is designed to put pressure on government over planning reforms
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NewsHunt for new government architecture boss to start this week
Former head Andy von Bradsky says government now convinced of importance of architects
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NewsLondon Property Alliance warns PD rights will hamper city centre growth
MPs told reforms risk ad hoc ‘pepper potting’ of residential development
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NewsStudent homes planned for listed Leeds Debenhams store
Scheme by Orchard Street is latest to propose housing solution for vacant city centre shops
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NewsWestminster approves controversial Ebury Estate redevelopment
Construction work to start for 781-home council housing scheme
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NewsMinister backs Tory think-tank call for more planning reform
Housing minister supports report proposing planning permissions be replaced by “delivery contracts”
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CommentA politician’s view of new permitted developments
Reforms designed to speed up regeneration of our high streets risk depriving councillors of a vital role in the local planning process, says Sachin Shah
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NewsCritics brand PD rights expansion a ‘disaster’
Planners, developers and designers line up against new resi conversion right
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NewsJenrick confirms huge expansion of high street PD rights
Housing secretary allows conversion of wide range of premises to homes without planning permission
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NewsBusinesses urge Jenrick to ditch blanket resi PD right for high streets
Groups representing shops and developers write to housing secretary over radical permitted development plan