A SOLUTION TO OUR DYING HIGH STREETS? OR A PERMIT FOR FUTURE SLUMS?

摘要

Planners, architects, surveyors and chartered construction professionals have all condemned the government's decision to press ahead with the creation of a raft of new permitted development rights. The new rules, which include a right for developers to demolish vacant office and industrial premises and rebuild them as homes, were branded "disgraceful" by the RIBA, while the Royal Town Planning Institute described them as a "serious error". The government has pushed ahead with introducing the rights despite most of the changes being opposed in previous consultations -and despite the conclusions of a recent government-commissioned review which found that previous permitted development rights had created significantly worse-quality homes.