Blog posts tagged with “Coronavirus”

New Permitted Developments Rights – August 2020, by Ellen Nicholson

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic the Government has introduced a number of new measures to encourage development and speed up the planning process. Among the latest amendments to The Town and County Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2020 are changes to two storey extensions to detached purpose-built blocks of flats. […]

28th September 2020

Build, Build, Build….let’s hope so!

by Jo Hanslip. Culminating in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s announcements on 30 June 2020 to launch the most radical changes to the planning system since the Second World War, we thought it might be helpful to provide a recap on all that has been happening as we start to ease (spring) out of lockdown…. The […]

28th August 2020

Current/post Coronavirus times – can planning assist in breathing life into the economy?

By Richard Anderson. Prior to the Coronavirus emerging, the Government had been trailing, expressing opinion and occasionally speaking on systematic changes to “a broken planning system” (Housing Minister Robert Jenrick, October 2020). During the Pandemic, the Chancellor (11 March 2020) announced there would be a series of “comprehensive reforms” to the planning system imminently. The […]

28th August 2020

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