Deputy PM Angela Rayner was today due to reveal details of some of the sweeping changes to planning regulations, including the threat to increase housebuilding targets by as much as 100,000 home a year and reassessment of some existing green belt land to permit building.
Echoing some of the proposals first hinted at earlier this month, she is expected to announce a consultation on proposed updating of the National Planning Policy Framework, which is due to be completed by September.
The DPM, also housing minister, had earlier told press: “This Labour Government isn’t afraid of making hard decisions in the national interest to power growth in every part of the country.
“We’ll take the tough choices to unblock the planning system and make it a reality. When it comes to housebuilding, we will no longer be asking ‘if’, but ‘how’.”
She and Chancellor Rachel Reeves had first outlined the planned reforms earlier this month, including reintroducing mandatory housing targets for local authorities and initiating a task force to accelerate stalled housing projects https://www.the-glazine.com/?p=12930
