{"id":5692,"date":"2013-04-19T17:45:52","date_gmt":"2013-04-19T17:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=5692"},"modified":"2013-04-23T15:48:38","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T15:48:38","slug":"pickles-to-revisit-house-extension-rights-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5692","title":{"rendered":"Pickles to revisit house extension rights change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Government has announced it is revising its proposals to grant permitted development rights for larger house extensions for a period of three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Communities Secretary Eric Pickles made the announcement in the Commons when MPs debated Lords amendments to the Growth and Infrastructure Bill.<\/p>\n<p>During the debate the minister told MPs: \u2018I can announce that in the spirit of consensus we will introduce a revised approach to the contentious question of permitted development rights for home extensions when the Bill returns to the Lords.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018If we cannot persuade the other House, the issue will return to the Commons next week so that Hon Members can debate and vote further.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Given the discussions I have had with colleagues who have concerns, I believe that the problem is eminently bridgeable. I would like the opportunity to build that bridge.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>His comments came before the Commons voted to reject a Lords amendment which would have allowed councils to opt out of the new regime, a move opposed by Coalition ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Planning Minister Nick Boles had insisted that the proposed reforms \u2018should make it quicker, easier and cheaper for up to 40,000 families a year wishing to build small-scale, single-storey extensions and conservatories.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Search Planning Portal<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2013\/apr13\/180413\/18042013_1\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Civic Voice Statement<\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicvoice.org.uk\/news\/civic-voice-joins-zac-goldsmith-mp-lord-true-responding-to-the-compromise-on-permitted-development\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">LINK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government has announced it is revising its proposals to grant permitted development rights for larger house extensions for a period of three years. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles made the announcement in the Commons when MPs debated Lords amendments to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=5692\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5704,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5692\/revisions\/5704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}