The aim of the exercise was to help improve the Department’s understanding of the operation and impact of the existing permitted development rights set out in Part 16 of the Schedule to the Planning (General Permitted Development) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 and provide more recent evidence on the social, environmental and economic impacts of these permitted development rights.
A link to the summary paper detailing the scope and purpose of the Call for Evidence and the subsequent analysis of responses is provided below.