Campaigners push ahead with permitted development rights legal challenge

By Joey Gardiner2020-09-01T11:34:00

Judicial review of new permitted developments rights, which came into force yesterday, launched

Environmental campaigners have pushed ahead with a threatened judicial review of the government’s expansion of permitted development rights which come into effect yesterday.

The new permitted development rights, created through three separate statutory instruments, give developers the right to demolish commercial and residential buildings and rebuild them as homes, and to extend upwards existing homes, without applying for full planning permission.

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