questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that householders in conservation areas whose permitted development rights were removed by local authorities are not required to submit a full householder planning application in order to install air source heat pumps, in the context of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2025, Section G, protections safeguarding the amenities of conservation areas.
answerText: National permitted development rights enable the installation of air and ground source heat pumps without the need for a planning application. Local authorities are able to remove permitted development rights by making an Article 4 direction if this is ju...
heading: Planning Permission: Heat Pumps