Permitted Development Urban Homes 2024-01-22
2024-01-22
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Questions & Answers
Q1
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Context
No specific background context provided. The question is about a potential assessment of the merits of permitting urban homeowners to increase their property to four storeys.
If he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a permitted development right for urban homeowners to increase their property to four storeys where that complies with the local authority's design code.
We have introduced national permitted development rights to allow a wide range of existing residential and commercial buildings to extend upwards by up to two additional storeys. We have also recently consulted on proposals to apply local design codes to those rights and further announcements will be made in due course.
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Assessment & feedback
The specific request for an assessment of increasing properties to four storeys was not addressed directly.
Consulting On Proposals
Further Announcements
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Q2
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Context
The questioner urges the Minister to go further and faster with permitted development rights, emphasizing potential benefits for urban townscapes, housebuilding, cost reduction, environmental impact, wealth creation, and protecting rural landscapes.
May I urge the Minister to go further and faster on this? The permitted development rights would create beautiful urban townscapes and unleash the biggest wave of housebuilding in half a century, which would in turn cut housing costs to rent or buy, be greener by allowing people to live within bicycling or walking distance from work and protecting rural landscapes from urban sprawl and, by increasing the development potential of almost any urban building, be the biggest single act of wealth creation in decades. What's to dislike?
There is absolutely nothing to dislike, as my hon. Friend indicates, about speeding up the planning system to ensure we get the houses we so badly need. As I know my hon. Friend will appreciate, however, there is always a balance to be struck: we must ensure that we take local people with us, but we are committed to building more houses, and doing so in the right places.
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Assessment & feedback
The specific request for urgency was not addressed directly; instead, emphasis on balancing speed with community engagement.
Balance
Commitment
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