PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Garages and Petrol Stations and Parking: Land Use (30 August 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what guidance her Department has issued on the planning classification of a disused (a) petrol station and (b) car park as (i) brownfield and (ii) greenfield land.

Asked by:
David Simmonds (Conservative)

The definition of previously developed land is set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The definition sets out some specific exceptions, including residential gardens in built up areas. The Government’s proposed reforms to the NPPF include relaxing the restrictions that are currently applied to Previously Developed Land (PDL) and limited infilling in the Green Belt in paragraph 154g of the current NPPF, to make clear that development is ‘not inappropriate’ where it would not cause substantial harm to the openness of the Green Belt. The requirements of our golden rules are intended to apply to release of PDL.

Answered by:
Matthew Pennycook (Labour)
9 September 2024