Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 to enable a Class Q application to be made in two parts for (a) change of use and (b) building operations.

Class Q permitted development rights, which allow agricultural buildings to change to residential use, provide both for change of use only and for change of use and associated building operations. Where the change of use to a residential dwelling would not be possible without the associated building operations, a local authority should consider the complete proposal when determining whether to grant prior approval.

We therefore have no plans to amend the regulations in this regard.