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Government to relax planning rules for house extensions

‘We are reforming the planning system and cutting out unnecessary bureaucracy to give small business ...

Housing Regeneration

Lichfields launches COVID-19 planning tracker

‘The day-to-day reality of the planning system has changed...'

Housing

Eight-year ‘time lag’ to start building homes on large sites

Smaller developments of under 500 homes take an average of three years to start delivering ...

Housing Local Government

One million homes given green light but not built

The number of planning permissions granted for new homes has almost doubled since 2012/13, with councils approving ...

Communities Regeneration

Bureaucracy ‘strangling’ high streets, think tank claims

'High streets across Britain have too often become soulless and empty, and we risk creating ...

Housing Local Government

Housing secretary promises ‘beginning of a planning revolution’

‘I’m announcing new freedoms, including to build upward so that your home can grow as ...

Communities Housing Regeneration

‘Say no to ugliness’, housing commission urges planners

The BBBB Commission said in its interim report that councils should redevelop brownfield sites into ...

Housing Local Government

Government relaxes planning permission for housing and retail extensions

The reforms make permanent rights first introduced in 2014 which permit extensions without homeowners or ...

Communities Finance Local Government

Austerity stopping planners from serving public, study finds

A lack of resources and ill-thought planning reforms have reduced planning to a more reactionary ...

Communities Economic Development Housing

Tackling the housing crisis from a planner’s perspective

Planning alone can’t solve the issue but brave new thinking and adopting land reform is ...