Covid-19: Planning System Debate
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Baroness Thomas of Winchester
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Covid-19: Planning System
Baroness Thomas of Winchester Excerpts(4 years, 5 months ago)
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Lord Greenhalgh
I am afraid that I cannot give the noble Lord a precise timetable, but we are well aware that many of the emergency measures that we need to reboot the economy, including making the requisite planning changes, need to occur before the Summer Recess.
Baroness Thomas of Winchester (LD) [V]
My Lords, what assurance can the Minister give that homes constructed under permitted development rights will be required to meet all the policy standards, including accessibility, set out in local planning policy?
Lord Greenhalgh
Certainly there is no diminution in the standards required for accessibility in these temporary and pragmatic changes as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.