questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, if she will remove the presumption in favour of granting planning permission for developments which build extra stories on top of occupied apartment blocks.
answerText: As set out in our consultation on proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework, the government supports upward extensions as a route to urban intensification. Planning policy makes clear that local authorities should support upward extension...
heading: Building Alterations: Planning Permission