Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when his Department plans to announce its decision on the proposal to make permanent the permitted development right for larger single storey rear extensions to houses.

As set out in the Written Ministerial Statement of 13 March 2018, HCWS1408, we will make the permitted development right for larger householder extensions permanent. Regulations to bring this measure into force were laid on 3 May.