Opportunities for Special Development Orders
Think tank: Centre for Policy Studies
Author(s): Samuel Hughes
June 14, 2023
This report from UK think tank the Centre for Policy Studies sets out how government can use SDOs to encourage potential housing projects in areas of national importance.
This report from UK think tank the Centre for Policy Studies looks at the opportunities for Special Development Orders (SDA) which grant permission for specified kinds of development in a given area.
The Government can designate an SDO without fresh legislation. Though used successfully in the Cardiff Bay area in the 1990s, they remain in relative obscurity.
However, the power to designate them have not lapsed. SDOs could never be a normal way of delivering homes, but they could play an important role in delivering major housing projects of strategic national importance.
