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MPs to examine plans to reform planning system

‘The government has set out its intention to implement wide ranging reforms and we must ...

Housing Local Government

Government planning reforms under fire in Parliament

Theresa Villiers said the proposed formula would ‘require the equivalent of a small new city ...

Local Government

Six vital lessons for planning departments post Covid-19

Paul Beaney, customer success director at DEF writes on the challenges facing local authority planning ...

Economic Development Housing

Planning system ‘suffocating’ house building on small sites

‘Inflexible planning policies inevitably lead to protracted negotiations, which are having a huge impact.'

Housing Local Government

Housing formula could exacerbate regional divide, councils warn

‘This seriously jeopardises any ambition to level-up the country.'

Housing Local Government

Conservative MP denounces ‘mutant’ planning algorithm

'The standard method algorithm is backward looking and self-perpetuating.'

Housing Local Government

District council says no to government housing plans

'To now have proposals that would give us almost the highest house building number in ...

Housing Local Government

Government reveals plans to reform ‘sluggish’ planning system

‘Our complex planning system has been a barrier to building the homes people need.'

Housing Local Government

Councils voice concerns over planning shake up

‘Any suggestion that planning is a barrier to housebuilding is a myth.'

Regeneration

Feature: Fundamental changes to high street use classes

Lichfields' senior director, Peter Wilks writes on how changes to town centre use classes will ...