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Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2025

Synopsis

This order amended the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015.

The amendments expand and update permitted development rights concerning electric vehicle charging equipment and domestic air source heat pumps.

Summary

The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2025 amended the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 on 29 May 2025.

This legislation applies in England only.

What has changed?

The general permitted development regime enables certain developments to be undertaken without planning permission, provided the attached conditions are met.

The Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) (Amendment) Order 2025 revise classes of permitted development as follows:

Schedule 2, Part 2, Class D (Electrical outlets for recharging vehicles):
- Planning permission is no longer required for outlets facing onto and within two metres of a highway.
Schedule 2, Part 2, Class E (Electrical upstand for recharging vehicles):
- Associated equipment and housing units necessary for the operation of the upstand are now also permitted development.
- Conditions associated with this permitted development are updated, including to relax restrictions on height and removing a condition that prohibited upstands within two metres of a highway without planning permission.
Schedule 2, Part 14 Class G (Installation or alteration, etc., of air source heat pumps on domestic premises:
- Air source heat pump are required to comply with MCS planning standards in all cases.
- Other conditions on this permitted development are relaxed, including to allow two air source heat pumps on or within the curtilage of detached dwellinghouses and to allow the volume of the air source heat pump's outdoor compressor unit to be up to 1.5 cubic metres on dwellinghouses.
- A distance restriction on any part of the air source heat pump installed within 1 metre of the boundary of the curtilage of the dwellinghouse or block of flats is removed.
- A revised condition now requires that heat pumps are not solely used for the purpose of cooling.

The definition of the MCS planning standards was updated to concern:

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