Property Development

(asked on 20th September 2021) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, whether financial resources are available for residents who need to repeatedly respond to multiple applications from a developer for a site that repeatedly seeks to extend the limits to development which are already settled through restrictive covenants.


Answered by
Christopher Pincher Portrait
Christopher Pincher
This question was answered on 28th September 2021

Local planning authorities have powers under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to decline to determine multiple applications for a site if they have previously refused permission for substantially similar applications within the past two years. Restrictive covenants are separate to planning laws and ones that exist may generally not be taken into account by a local planning authority when determining a planning application.

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