Moved by
Lord True
3: After Clause 14, insert the following new Clause—
“Local authorities meeting housing targets to be permitted to override prior approval
(1) Where a local planning authority can show that—
(a) the exercise of prior approvals for the conversion of offices to residential is having a detrimental effect on the local economy, including the expulsion of, or non-renewal of leases to, businesses to make way for residential development, and
(b) the relevant local authority is meeting its housing targets and can show reasonable evidence that it will continue to do so,
the local authority concerned may, notwithstanding any regulation or provision to the contrary, require any future application in any part of, or the whole of, the local authority area to seek full planning permission and may bring any part of the adopted local plan, or relevant neighbourhood plan, into consideration in determining that application.
(2) A local authority may recover all permitted planning fees and costs in relation to any application for a development determination by prior approval, as if the application concerned were subject to all procedures of a normal planning application.”