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This year’s round of local elections was already the least important of the four year cycle, with the fewest numbers of councils up for election and most being county councils which have only limited planning involvement, before the government stepped in and made it even less important by postponing many of the county council elections. […]

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This is a government committed to building 1.5m new homes by 2029 and anyone with any knowledge thinks it a challenging target – especially when it isn’t the government that is actually going to be building most of these homes. So on Tuesday, the last day before Parliament’s summer break, Angela Rayner emerged from seclusion […]

The new government’s King’s Speech has the Planning and Infrastructure Bill as one of its flagship measures. It’s point two out in the ‘ten things to know from the King’s Speech’ put out by Number 10. A fight about reforming planning to build more homes is one the Labour government is very keen to have. […]

Planning reform has become a byword for political timidity in the face of vested interests and a graveyard of economic ambition. Our antiquated planning system leaves too many important projects getting tied up in years and years of red tape before shovels ever get into the ground. We promised to put planning reform at the […]