News Release
By The
Department for
Communities and Local Government
Planning Service - July
2009
Planning Permitted Development
Rights for Commercial Buildings and
Operations
This is real
news. No, I mean it - this is REAL new news.
Commercial buildings & operations enjoy very little PD
rights - perhaps non at all in most cases.
Therefore Planning applications for even the
simplest of alteration or new element will nearly always be
required.
This is seen as potentially thwarting growth
& expansion of our much needed small businesses who are the
power house of generating employment & tax raising revenues
for the greater good (well within the south east
anyway).
Reducing the number of low level Planning
applications has been on the Governments Agenda for years - and
who could blame them.
By allowing commercial premises and operations
a degree of change of business premises without requiring
formal Planning Permission will be a blessing to most business
I am sure.
However, if the same legislators are let lose
on this piece of red tape busting freedom as on the domestic PD
re-write then God help us all.
Here is an extract from the consultation
paper...
The Killian Pretty Review
highlighted how obtaining planning permission for some
minor non-domestic development can place burdens on
business out of proportion with potential impacts. The
Government’s response to the Killian Pretty Review
acknowledged that reducing the burden of the planning
system on applicants has taken on a new imperative in the
current economic climate, and placed an early priority on
reducing the need for planning permission for some small
scale development by businesses.
Alongside the Government’s
response to the Killian Pretty Review, we published a
report of proposals by WYG Planning and Design (WYG) for
extending permitted development rights to non-domestic
concerns. WYG proposed changes in relation
to a wide range of non-domestic uses including shops,
offices, institutions, agriculture, and waste management.
We have at this stage given priority to consulting upon
the changes that would remove the greatest number of
planning applications from the system and which would
offer most benefit to business.
Given that the Government’s
general policy is reducing the burden of the planning
system where appropriate on users, the burden of making
Article 4 Directions on LPAs should also be minimised. We
are therefore proposing changes to the process by which
Article 4 Directions are made.
The new Permitted Development rights for commercial
buildings is due to come into force in April
2010.
Download the
whole consultation document for the coming PD for commercial
buildings (Word doc)...
consultation document for improving permitted
development for commercial buildings and operations
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