Ministers say that a temporary relaxation of extension rules will boost the building industry, while a consultation on plans to double the maximum size of home extensions in England will continue despite a defeat on the issue in the House of Lords.
Peers voted to give individual councils the power to reject a three-year relaxation of the rules as Conservative Lord True, who put forward the amendment, called the coalition’s home-extensions proposal ‘ludicrous’.
The government, which argues the change will boost construction, said the defeat ‘doesn’t change’ its position.
Ministers announced last year that they were considering a three-year relaxation of the maximum depth of single-storey extensions from four metres to eight metres for detached houses and from three metres to six metres for other houses.
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