Question follow-through · 11218
Building Alterations: Planning Permission
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will remove the presumption in favour of granting planning permission for developments which build extra stories on top of occupied apartment blocks.
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 31 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
- Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will remove the presumption in favour of granting planning permission for developments which build extra stories on top of occupied apartment blocks.
31 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 2024
Answer published
As set out in our consultation on proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework, the government supports upward extensions as a route to urban intensification. Planning policy makes clear that local authorities should support upward extension...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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