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Nurseries: Planning Permission

Commons · Question 52157 · Tabled 13 May 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government · Official record

Answered 23 May 2025

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Asked by Joshua Reynolds

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of legislation that exempts the conversion of buildings to nursery use from requiring planning permission on the adequacy o

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Answered by Matthew Pennycook, 23 May 2025

The Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1987 groups together uses which have similar land use impacts into classes, allowing flexibility to change between uses within each class without the need for an application for planning permission. Since ...