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The London Assembly Planning and Regeneration Committee responded to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government consultation on the proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework.
The Committee focused on longstanding concerns about various expansions of permitted development rights (PDRs) for many reasons, but above all concerns are that these bypass democratic scrutiny.
It strongly recommended that the existing exemption for the London Central Activities Zone should continue to apply to any new Permitted Development Rights right for Class E to residential conversions, and if there is no general exemption for conservation areas, there should be expedited arrangements for boroughs to be able to apply Article 4 directions to individual conservation areas before the Class E PDR scheme, if implemented, commences.