All Permitted development articles
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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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New 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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Councils 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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Four 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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MPs 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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Labour introduces ‘use it or lose it’ planning bill
Proposed legislation is designed to put pressure on government over planning reforms
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Hunt 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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London 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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Student 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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Westminster approves controversial Ebury Estate redevelopment
Construction work to start for 781-home council housing scheme
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Minister 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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A 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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Critics brand PD rights expansion a ‘disaster’
Planners, developers and designers line up against new resi conversion right
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Jenrick 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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Businesses 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
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Influential architect backs freedoms to convert offices to housing
Norman Foster says office buildings abandoned during the pandemic could become ’residential towers of the future’
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Developers line up to oppose new resi conversion right
The British Property Federation says uncontrolled conversion of shops and restaurants to homes will damage high streets
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Architects fear latest permitted development expansion will be disastrous
Designers say the damage to towns and local democracy from town centre conversions ‘unacceptable’
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Airspace developer pledges 5,000 London homes
Alpamint Capital says it will build homes on top of existing properties after planning relaxation
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Legal bid to overturn PD expansion fails
Campaigners pledge appeal as high court rules in favour of planning deregulation
