Flats: Permitted Development Rights

(asked on 19th July 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what recent assessment his Department has made of the financial impact on leaseholders attempting to purchase the freehold of their building, of development potential costs incurred as a result of an existing freeholder intending to exercise permitted development rights of upward extension for the construction of additional flats; and if he will make a statement.


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Eddie Hughes Portrait
Eddie Hughes
This question was answered on 22nd July 2021

The Impact Assessments published alongside changes to permitted development rights (available at https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2020/79/pdfs/ukia_20200079_en.pdf and https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukia/2020/43/pdfs/ukia_20200043_en.pdf ), set out an assessment of their impacts, including on leaseholders.

We announced in January changes to enfranchisement valuation to make it easier, cheaper and simpler for leaseholders to extend their lease or buy their freehold. This includes allowing leaseholders to voluntarily agree to a restriction on future development of their property to avoid paying 'development value'.

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