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Heat Pumps: Planning Permission

Asked by Ms Polly BillingtonLabourMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local GovernmentTabled Answered 7 May 2025UIN 47949

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, when her Department plans to lay statutory instrument to remove the one-metre rule requiring planning permission to install heat pumps in England.

Answered by Matthew Pennycook

Further announcements on permitted development rights for domestic air source heat pumps will be made in due course.

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