A campaign group has launched a judicial review to stop new laws allowing developers to build homes on disused commercial sites without going through the planning process by using enhanced permitted development rights (PDR).
The group, Rights: Community: Action (RCA), is challenging the use of statutory instruments to extend PDR. The reforms were laid before parliament, as part of a package of measures put forward by housing secretary Robert Jenrick, who wants to cut red tape in the planning system.
They were due to become law yesterday (31 August), ahead of parliament reconvening today (1 September). The changes will allow disused offices, shops or warehouses to be repurposed or demolished and new houses constructed and for up to two storeys to be built above existing detached residential properties.
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