The UK government’s actions are ramping up as it battles to contain the spread of COVID-19 and enforce social distancing. To assist with this, secondary legislation has been enacted to establish a new ...

The government is to introduce new permitted development rights to allow casinos, distribution centres and storage facilities to be turned into homes. In a Written Ministerial Statement (WMS), ...

The Scottish Government has published a summary of responses to the consultation ‘Permitted development rights to support the ...

Parliament has expanded permitted development rights (PDR) to include the right to turn shops into offices and the right to turn takeaways into residential units.