Developers who obtained approval for office-to-residential conversion schemes are being urged to complete the works and begin residential use ahead of the 2016 deadline.
Despite hopes that the office-to-residential permitted development rights deadline might be extended, the date for completion remains fixed at 30 May 2016.
Writing in this Saturday’s EG, planning lawyer Chad Sutton questions what will happen to those schemes that are incomplete and cannot prove residential use by the deadline. Does subsequent completion of the scheme and commencement of residential use after the deadline constitute a breach of planning enforceable by a local planning authority?
For Chad’s views on this and other points that developers working on office-to-residential schemes should keep in mind, click here.
