Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, whether his Department monitors the effect on local communities of domestic extensions under permitted development.

The recent Technical Consultation on Planning set out proposals to retain the permitted development rights in respect of domestic extensions which were introduced in May 2013. We are considering the responses received. The Department has collected data on the applications in respect of the right since April 2014 which are set out in table E2 of the live tables on planning application statistics on the Department's website. This can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-planning-application-statistics