England: Legislative amendments to increase planning application fees in England have been made and will come into effect on 6th December 2023. The main points are that: The legislative changes are contained within The Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment) Regulations […]
England: The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has published a consultation which proposes to introduce a requirement to obtain planning permissions for short term lets, such as Air BNBs, in tourist hot spots within England. The DLUHC consultation, which is open until 7th June 2023, explains that […]
An update to the Use Classes Order in England has come into effect as of 1st September 2020, bringing significant changes to several of the existing use classes. The principal change to the Use Classes Order is the creation of Use Class E which will now include most shops (previously […]
England: The Government announced last week that they are extending Permitted Development rights for change of use of agricultural and storage buildings to residential dwellings with amended regulations which will come into force on 6th April 2018. One of the key changes is to permitted development rights for barn conversions (change […]
England: A Happy New Year to all our readers, clients and colleagues. But we begin with the news that just before Christmas parliamentary approval was given to the legislation which will introduce a 20% increase to planning fees – the change will take effect from 17 January 2018. This means […]
England: Draft regulations providing for a 20 per cent increase in planning application fees were laid before Parliament on the 19th October 2017. The regulations have to be approved by both Houses of Parliament which is anticipated to be before the end of the year. Once approved the new fees […]
England: New permitted development rights became available on the 1st October 2017 potentially allowing the conversion of B1(c) (light industrial) buildings to C3 Residential Dwellings. This is only a temporary permitted development right, with the permitted development right ceasing on the 1st October 2020. The right was contained in the Town and […]
England: Following various government consultations in early 2016, the Department for Communities and Local Government have announced that they are pressing ahead with legislation to create brownfield registers and introduce new planning powers that will allow Local Planning Authorities to grant permission in principle. With effect from 16th April 2017 the […]
England: Following their success in the Court of Appeal as we reported last week, the Government has returned the national 10-unit affordable housing threshold to its Planning Practice Guidance making it clear to Council’s that this is once again adopted Government policy which they must take into account in making […]
England: After much speculation, permitted development rights to allow the conversion of offices (Use Class B1(a)) to residential (Use Class C3) have been made permanent by the Government with effect from 6 April 2016. Temporary permitted development rights allowing the conversion of office buildings were first introduced by coalition Government in 2013 […]
