POS Response to Improving Permitted Development Consultation

EXTRACT

The Society has actively engaged in the work undertaken by White Young Green on behalf of DCLG which has informed this consultation document. At the time of that exercise the Society supported the general thrust to remove from the need to apply for planning permission those developments which did not have impacts. Whilst a number of the suggestions made in the earlier work by WYG have been dropped we maintain our objections to the proposals set out in this consultation for relaxations on air conditioning plant and ATM's, and the extension of the prior approval regime into these areas.

We welcome on this occasion the inclusion of the draft regulations in the consultation and have identified anomalies and drafting point's which can fortunately be addressed at this stage avoiding the potential arguments over interpretation, with associated delay and costs that brings to the system. We also stress the importance of issuing the final regulation and associated guidance well before the regulations coming into force, including the updating of Planning Portal web pages.

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