Further to Minute 88 of the Policy Committee held on 18 January 2021, when a Council response to the government consultation ‘Supporting housing delivery and public service infrastructure’, on proposed changes to the planning system, had been agreed, the Director of Environment and Neighbourhood Services submitted a report on the resultant recent changes to permitted development rights introduced by the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development etc) (England) (Amendment) Order 2021, which had come into force on 21 April 2021. The permitted development rights particularly affected were changes from commercial use to residential, and extension and alteration of schools, colleges, universities, hospitals and prisons; there were also more minor amendments to existing rights and all of the changes were described in the report.

Resolved -    That the report be noted.