planning permission

British  

noun

1. (in Britain) formal permission that must be obtained from a local authority before development or a change of use of land or buildings

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Example Sentences

Plans for such a facility were withdrawn in 2024 after London Mayor Sadiq Khan refused to grant it planning permission.

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That is when planning permission will be submitted and fans will finally get to see what the club intend their stadium to look like and how close it is to those initial artists' impressions Ratcliffe unveiled last March.

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It hoped that by introducing legislation requiring homeowners in the county to seek planning permission before turning a residential property into a second home, it would help local people who were being priced out of the market.

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She told MSPs that a new track would not have received planning permission, adding it "beggars belief" parliament found time to debate a bill that does "little or nothing" for greyhound safety.

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And it warned that some of those projects in the queue were only "speculative" - even if they were given a connection they did not have enough financing, proper planning permission or land rights to lead to a real project.

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