Select committee: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee
Recommendation 8
Third Report - Permitted Development Rights
Published 22 Jul 2021
Paragraph 50
Addressed to Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
We broadly welcome the new use class E, as we can see the advantages of greater flexibility, but it should not permit development to bypass the sequential test or risk the loss of medical centres. As we have already recommended, the Government should review the role of permitted development rights within the planning system. As part of that review, we recommend it consider amending the use class regime to prevent out-of-town commercial and business premises from being converted to retail without having first gone through the sequential test and to prevent the loss of medical centres through change of use within the new use class E.
From: Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, Third Report - Permitted Development Rights (HC 32), paragraph 50, 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.