Fight for your permitted development rights

By Blane Perrotton2019-05-23T05:00:00

Used responsibly, and with adequate quality safeguards, PD rules are a powerful tool for tackling the UK’s housing crisis, and must remain in place

For the past six years, permitted development (PD) rights have quietly given a hefty shot in the arm to residential construction. Unlike the headline-grabbing Help to Buy scheme, PD rights are a stimulus little known outside our industry.

Yet in the past couple of months they have been thrust into the limelight for all the wrong reasons. In March the housing secretary, James Brokenshire, revealed the government intends to extend the scope of PD rights, which currently allow developers to convert offices or shops into homes without the need for planning permission.

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