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  The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2020
  
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  @ MP voted aye not to allow adding additional stories to existing homes, or creating new homes on top of existing buildings, without planning permission. 
  @ MP voted no to allow adding additional stories to existing homes, and creating new homes on top of existing buildings, without planning permission. 
  
  The majority of MPs voted not to allow adding additional stories to existing homes, or creating new homes on top of existing buildings, is permitted without planning permission. 
  
  The motion supported by a majority of MPs in this vote was:
  
  :That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/755/contents/made the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2020] (S.I., 2020, No. 755), dated 20 July 2020, a copy of which was laid before this House on 21 July 2020, be annulled.
  
  The order in question provided the extension of permitted development rights to allow:
  
  * * existing houses to be extended to provide more living space by constructing additional storeys without planning permission.  
   
  * * the construction of additional storeys on free standing blocks and on buildings in a terrace that are houses or in certain commercial uses, and in mixed uses with an element of housing, to create additional self-contained homes
  
  The law had come into force on 31st August 2020. 
  
  * [1] [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/755/pdfs/uksiem_20200755_en.pdf Explanatory Memorandum to the The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2020]
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