Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, if he will publish details of how permitted development rights will be expanded within freeport zones.

Alongside the rest of the freeports package, in 2021, the government amended existing permitted development rights for ports so that they have the same freedoms as airports. This amendment related to all ports and the government has not proposed new or changed permitted development rights for Freeports specifically.