Jenrick defends permitted-development housing record

摘要

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has defended the government's record on housing delivery, insisting that permitted-development schemes - such as office-to-residential conversions - had delivered homes that otherwise would not have existed.Jenrick was answering questions in parliament after councils' lobby group the Local Government Association released figures suggesting the light-touch planning regime had cost the nation 13,500affordable homes over the past four years. That is because the developers of such schemes do not need to comply with the same planning obligations that the normal application route demands.