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Voting on Planning Permission

The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has recently announced that local residents will be able to vote on whether local developments are granted planning permission. There is a distinct lack of detail of how this will work, but we expect it will entail changes to the Permitted Development Order and a form of prior approval process. What implications this process will have for clients and Local Authority workloads is not yet known. The devil will be in the detail as always.

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