Residents may have heard that the Government has publicised a proposed temporary relaxation to planning regulations, under which the depth of single-storey extensions requiring planning permission would become 8 metres rather than 4 metres (for detached houses), or 6 metres rather than 3 metres (for semi-detached houses). The Roads Committee wishes to point out the following:
At present, the proposal is for consultation; it has not become law at this point, nor has the consultation document even been published at the time […]