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I can't agree with Richard Steer ("Doubling down on a failing policy: Why PD rights are so wrong" 4 August, building.co.uk). The driver for poor development especially in residential is high land values, which results in even taller buildings and even smaller apartments and houses. Permitted development solves the problem of high land values at a stroke. Surely the answer then is permitted development with strict conditions. For example, it would be good to have a design standard that all flats must have a balcony, natural daylight to all habitable rooms and access to on-site communal gardens, and a two-bed flat should be a minimum of 100m2.