Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the automatic planning permission for land included on statutory registers of brownfield land suitable for housing in England under their proposed zonal system for brownfield land will be for outline permission only, or also for other matters such as (1) numbers and types of dwellings, (2) matters relating to access and highways layout, (3) other detailed matters such as design, drainage, landscaping and impact on the local highways network, (4) restrictions relating to development work on the site, and (5) Community Infrastructure Levy or section 106 contributions; and if the automatic permission is only for permission in principle, what will be the system for achieving permission in relation to these other matters.
Our proposal is to grant permission in principle for identified sites in a new statutory brownfield register. Technical details will then require further approval from the local planning authority. Further details on how the measure will work will be made available in the autumn.