Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the impact of the extensions to Permitted Development Rights introduced by his Department on Business Rates revenues for local authorities.
Permitted development rights are a national grant of planning permission and facilitate the diversification of our high streets and town centres and will help their recovery as the country re-opens. This will help to ensure the local tax base is maintained.