A significant proportion of senior officers and councillors fear vulnerable people are being disproportionately negatively affected by the rise in the number of homes built through permitted ...

Homes created under PDRs are also more likely to be in places with little access to green spaces, or in places with less access to public transport – compared to properties built with planning ...

City of Powell River Council has approved a development variance permit for a property owned by inclusion Powell River (iPR), in Cranberry, on Artaban Street. At the August 20 council meeting, council ...

Permitted development rights (PDRs) are useful procedures that make certain types of development quicker, easier and cheaper. They allow landowners to build, extend, develop, convert, excavate or ...

The National Trust has called for the government to scrap a planned expansion of permitted development rights, warning that it risks causing ‘long-term damage to the economy, communities and the built ...

Architecture for London has used contentious new permitted development rights to push through a rooftop extension that was effectively refused three times last year The Farringdon practice secured ...