{"id":51112,"date":"2019-01-16T12:37:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T12:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=51112"},"modified":"2019-01-16T12:38:20","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T12:38:20","slug":"planners-condemn-permitted-development-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/planners-condemn-permitted-development-rights\/51112\/","title":{"rendered":"Planners condemn permitted development rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Permitted development rights that bypass local scrutiny to deliver housing in England put quality and affordability at risk, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/\">Royal Town Planning Institute<\/a> (RTPI)<\/h2>\n<p>The RTPI warns that permitted development rights carry serious financial implications for local authorities as they would not be able to collect planning fees and developer contributions for affordable housing and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The RTPI has expressed the idea of allowing demolition and redevelopment of commercial sites into residential use through permitted development rights, as it would lead to the loss of mixed-use developments which are often \u201cvery important for quality places, good design and local economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Permitted development rights are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/planning-permission-350000-new-homes\/48236\/\">planning permission granted<\/a> nationally by Parliament which allows certain building works and changes of use to be carried out without the need for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/failed-planning-system-hinders-affordable-housing\/47840\/\"> a planning application<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are designed for simple or minor changes, not new developments of this scale which should be subject to full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/planning-reforms-riba\/51050\/\">local planning scrutiny<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Control over design, the public\u2019s right to light, and the protection of neighbours and character of an area would be lost if buildings are allowed to be extended upwards through permitted development rights, according to the RTPI.<\/p>\n<p>Allowing shops to be converted to offices will only create \u201cdead frontages\u201d that will not help the high street and could disadvantage disabled people, it warns, while shop conversions to housing often create poor quality living conditions and insufficient space, as many studies have shown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/about-the-rtpi\/rtpi-staff\/\">Richard Blyth<\/a>, RTPI Head of Policy and Research, said: \u201cCurrent proposals to extend the use of permitted developments rights are piecemeal, short term measures that neither help declining high streets nor deliver quality, affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are at odds with the Government\u2019s professed priorities in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/government-planning-proposals-to-make-it-easier-to-build-upwards\/38294\/\">increasing quality developments<\/a> and building safety, and they add to the financial burden of local councils.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPermitted developments rights have been known to cause extensive problems. They are administrative tools which have been increasingly abused to achieve policy aims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe local planning process, backed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/revised-national-planning-policy-framework\">national planning frameworks<\/a>, should be used instead to deliver the housing people want for its ability to exert better control over land use, design and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/industry-predictions-2019\/51014\/\">infrastructure contributions<\/a> as well as for its role in community participation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RTPI\u2019s full response is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rtpi.org.uk\/knowledge\/consultations\/2019-responses\/rtpi-response-to-mhclg-consultation-on-planning-reform-supporting-the-high-street-and-increasing-the-delivery-of-new-homes\/\">available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0Planning Reform: <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.publishing.service.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/752222\/Planning_reform_-_supporting_the_high_street_and_increasing_the_delivery_of_new_homes.pdf\">Supporting the high street and increasing the delivery of new homes here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permitted development rights that bypass local scrutiny to deliver housing in England put quality and affordability at risk, according to the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[666,997,572,571,579,649],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-51112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-affordable-housing","8":"tag-development","9":"tag-housebuilding","10":"tag-housing-crisis","11":"tag-infrastructure","12":"tag-planning-applications"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Planners condemn permitted development rights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Permitted development rights that bypass local scrutiny to deliver housing in England put quality and affordability at risk, according to the RTPI\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/planners-condemn-permitted-development-rights\/51112\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Planners condemn permitted development rights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Permitted development rights to bypass local scrutiny to deliver housing in England put quality and affordability at risk, according to the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/planners-condemn-permitted-development-rights\/51112\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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