England

The Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee has recommended that the ability to set planning fees should be devolved to local authorities, with a national minimum rate. 

The government has published the new regulations to extend permitted development rights, which amend the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 – what do they say?

Homes England started building 47,965 homes between April 2019 and March 2020, according to government statistics. This is an increase from 45,970 the previous year.

UK built environment professionals have written to the housing secretary expressing their concerns on the extension of permitted development rights (PDR) given the ‘divergent ways in which we have all experienced the Covid-19 pandemic’.