Written Question·Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government·UIN 47949

Heat Pumps: Planning Permission

Tabled: 24 April 2025

Answered: 7 May 2025

Named Day

Question

Ms Polly Billington

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.

Answer

Matthew Pennycook

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