Madeddu, Manuela;
Clifford, Ben;
(2022)
The conversion of buildings to housing use: England's permitted development rights in comparative perspective.
Progress in Planning
, Article 100730. 10.1016/j.progress.2022.100730.
(In press).
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Abstract
Faced with acute housing crises, some governments are inclined to strip away the ‘bureaucracy’ of planning, relaxing rules on the scrutiny of planning applications and seeking to accelerate the building of new homes. The planning that remains becomes a ‘client service’ for the development industry – a system of housing licensing that follows on from a basic consideration of legal compliance. Such a system has been introduced in England, rooted in the extension of permitted development rights (PDR) for office-to-residential conversions. This article examines the determinants of housing quality through the conversion process, comparing the deregulated approach to conversion in England with Italy’s regulated approach, set within its zonal planning system. The conclusion drawn, after the examination of case studies, is that good quality housing cannot be delivered from the conversion of buildings without either the retention of strong case-by-case planning control or a much more detailed prescriptive approach to housing standards, which would have halted the majority of recent office-to-residential conversions in England.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | The conversion of buildings to housing use: England's permitted development rights in comparative perspective |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.progress.2022.100730 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.progress.2022.100730 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Building conversions, England, Italy, Permitted development, Regulation, Planning |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10161378 |
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