UK

RTPI chief executive Victoria Hills has written an open letter in response to government statements made this week in relation to the profession. The full text of her letter appears below.

A comprehensive rethink of the principles that drive planning will be necessary if we are to create healthier neighbourhoods, towns and cities in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The lack of a common definition of what constitutes social value means there is a high risk of it ‘becoming too diffuse and lacking focus’, according to a report published by the Institute of Economic Development (IED).

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out new regulations that will see buildings and land changing use without planning permission, with a policy paper due in July outlining how ‘England’s seven-decade-old planning system will be reformed for modern society’.