{"id":5435,"date":"2013-08-23T11:59:19","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T10:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=5435"},"modified":"2013-08-23T12:03:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T11:03:12","slug":"the-legal-aspect-permitted-development-and-judicial-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=5435","title":{"rendered":"The Legal Aspect \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Permitted Development and Judicial Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Another of our articles in this month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newsletter discussed new changes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=5437\">Government wants to make<\/a> to Permitted Development Rights. As the article mentions, the Government already made changes that came into effect on 30<sup>th<\/sup> May 2013 and, despite an obvious wish to push ahead, these original changes are now the subject of a Judicial Review. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Government brought in the Permitted Development changes through secondary legislation that amended the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development Order) 1995. Of particular concern was the permitting of conversions from office to residential which, intending to reduce the number of vacant office blocks across the country, was seen by some as giving a licence to landlords to deteriorate important industrial areas in favour of a quick profit. Cllr Robbins, Cabinet Member for Housing and regeneration at Lambeth Council, explains:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Landlords in Brixton and Streatham have been handed a free rein to turn offices into flats \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s simply unacceptable.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The new regulations could harm trade in these key areas and raise the prospect of job losses, lost business rates and reduced funding for infrastructure.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Government did create 17 local authority exemptions to aid in this, but Lambeth is now seeking a Judicial review of the process the Government went through to select those 17 locations. Cllr Robbins elaborates: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Based on the information provided, it is impossible to understand how the Government could have exempted residential areas in places such as Kensington and Chelsea, while ignoring the value to our local economy of Brixton and Streatham.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/i> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In response, the Department for Communities and Local Government informed the BBC:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>&#8220;The department introduced the office to residential change of use policy in order to bring underused offices back into effective use and provide new homes, and we will vigorously defend any legal challenge to the policy.&#8221;<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the first legal challenge made to the Government Permitted development push either. In July, Islington Council became the first authority in the country to issue an Article 4 direction, which enforces a requirement for planning permission, in a bid to overturn some of the permitted development rights introduced by the Government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It also sought a judicial review of the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcoffice to residential\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 rule itself and the way in which the Government decided on exemptions \u00e2\u20ac\u201c similar to the process Lambeth is embarking upon now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">With action from the two councils looming on the horizon, some might view DCLG as brave indeed for pushing ahead with yet more reforms \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the result of which could be several more costly legal defences at the taxpayers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 expense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">SRJ \/ LCB\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 21\/08\/2013<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> [contact-form][contact-field label=&#8217;Email&#8217; type=&#8217;email&#8217; required=&#8217;1&#8217;\/][contact-field label=&#8217;I liked this article&#8217; type=&#8217;checkbox&#8217;\/][contact-field label=&#8217;I did not like this article&#8217; type=&#8217;checkbox&#8217;\/][contact-field label=&#8217;Comment&#8217; type=&#8217;textarea&#8217;\/][\/contact-form]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another of our articles in this month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newsletter discussed new changes the Government wants to make to Permitted Development Rights. As the article mentions, the Government already made changes that came into effect on 30th May 2013 and, despite an obvious wish to push ahead, these original changes are now the subject of a Judicial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=5435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Legal Aspect \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Permitted Development and Judicial Reviews&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-5435","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Legal Aspect \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Permitted Development and Judicial Reviews - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propertysurveying.co.uk\/newsletter\/?page_id=5435\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Legal Aspect \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Permitted Development and Judicial Reviews - Property Surveying NEWSLETTER\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Another of our articles in this month\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newsletter discussed new changes the Government wants to make to Permitted Development Rights. 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