Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 7
Third Report - Permitted Development Rights
Published 22 Jul 2021
Paragraph 44
Addressed to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The Government should clarify why it considers it necessary to amend paragraph 53 of the National Planning Policy Framework, and set out how the new wording addresses the issues it is seeking to resolve. In addition, we recommend that the Government monitor whether the changes to paragraph 53 give councils the power they need to protect high streets and town centres from permitted development rights for change of use to residential. If the evidence suggests they do not, the Government should amend the wording again to give councils greater freedom to restrict the use of PDRs in certain areas. We also recommend that the Government allow councils to apply Article 4 directions more quickly without having to pay compensation to developers.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, Third Report - Permitted Development Rights (HC 32), paragraph 44, 22 July 2021
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 23 May 2023 (deadline 22 September 2021).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government has published its response to the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee's July 2021 report on permitted development rights, but the page gives only a general description of it.
- The Committee's July 2021 report made "a number of recommendations" on permitted development rights, Article 4 directions and use classes.
- The response was published alongside the introduction of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill and the government response to the Committee's report on The Future of Planning.
- The text available here does not set out the government's position on individual recommendations or any specific commitments; these are in the full response document, which applies to England.