The Department for Communities and Local Government has laid before Parliament the regulations which make office to residential conversions a permanent feature of permitted development (PD) rights from 6 April. The rights were first introduced […]
The next privatisation – flood defences!
Hard on the heels of opening up the processing of planning applications to the private sector comes the ‘opportunity’ for private water companies to now deliver and be responsible for flood defences. Water minister Rory […]