Planning Regulations

Part of 4. Questions to the Minister for Housing and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:13 pm on 24 June 2020.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 2:13, 24 June 2020

No, I don't think it was, but we have been working very hard with local authorities to understand what that might look like, and how many schemes might be caught up in that. We're looking not to have a blanket permitted development right across Wales for particular sorts of development, but to work with local authorities and their local development plans on identified housing sites to see what development rights need to be put in place, either in order to preserve a planning consent or to bring it forward rapidly, because as you know, we very much want to have a green housing-led recovery in that regard.

So, we are working very hard with them, but on the basis of site-specific issues rather than a blanket across Wales, because that's completely unmanageable. So, yes, we have a number of funds and sites that we're looking at, and once we've got to the end of what we're doing, we'll be ready to put a statement out and then I'm very happy to share. But actually, Angela, if you've got any specific sites in question, we're very interested in looking at them, so if you want to just let me know what they are, I'd be very happy to share that with you.