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 implications for his policies of the case study in the May 2018 report by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors entitled Extending permitted development rights in England: the implications for public authorities and communities which shows that in Glasgow where office to residential conversion requires full planning permission rather than permitted development higher residential quality and better space standards have followed.

We announced in Written Ministerial Statement HCWS 1408 our intention to review permitted development rights for the conversion of buildings to residential use in respect of the quality standard of homes delivered.

New homes in England, whether granted permission on an application or through a permitted development right, are required to meet Building Regulations.