ADPH joins call to improve housing

We have joined 38 other groups, experts and campaigners calling on the Government to support an amendment to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill – designed to speed up housebuilding – that would remove many permitted development right (PDR) allowances is being debated in Parliament on Monday.

Baroness Thornhill, a vice-president of the LGA who brought the amendment, said: “The impact of certain PDR rules has gone much further than was ever anticipated when they were first bought in. It is time they were scrapped. Councils and communities are losing out significantly because developers are able to circumvent the democratic planning process.”

In a letter to the Secretary of State, also signed by Shelter, the Town and Country Planning Association, and the National Association of Local Councils, Cllr Louise Gittins, Chair of the LGA, outlines the impact that the rules have had in creating low quality, poorly located homes.