Planning Register
Permitted development rights for change of use to residential use, introduced in recent years, are contributing to housing delivery. The Act allows the Secretary of State to require local planning authorities to record specified prior approvals for permitted development rights on the planning register, as is the case for applications for planning permission. This enables the collection of information on the number of new homes permitted through permitted development, so that the contribution these measures are making to help achieve the Government’s housing supply ambitions can be more accurately recorded.