planning system

Dismantling planning system will lead to failure of ‘build, build, build’ agenda, warns RTPI CEO

02.07.2020

RTPI

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.

Mixed views on the prime minister’s Covid-19 recovery plan

01.07.2020

Laura Edgar

Professionals across the built environment sector have broadly welcomed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s plans to reform the planning system in a bid to help the country recover from Covid-19, but some have cautioned against further deregulation.

Research: More than a million approved homes not built

20.02.2020

Laura Edgar

Analysis by the Local Government Association (LGA) has suggested that there are more than one million homes that have been granted planning permission but are yet to be built.

Public lacks trust in developers

10.07.2019

Laura Edgar

Campaigning & Advocacy | civic voice | planning system | Policy & Politics | UK

The public lacks trust in developers and the planning system, according to a survey published by property firm Grosvenor Britain & Ireland.

3 point plan: Judith Winters MRTPI

26.04.2018

Judith Winters

A planner explains how they would change Northern Ireland's planning system

NPPF reform will create a ‘simpler, more robust’ planning system, says Javid

05.03.2018

The Planner

The revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) will deliver a ‘simpler, more robust’ planning system in England, setting out ‘much clearer expectations’ for developers and local authorities, the housing secretary has promised.

3 point plan: Sara Dilmamode MRTPI

04.01.2018

Sara Dilmamode

A planner explains how they would change the English planning system

Making the duty to cooperate work? Good luck with that, Mr Javid

14.12.2017

Chris Shepley

Political failure to organise local government around geography renders efficient planning impossible, argues Chris Shepley

Nearly half of housebuilders are 'serial appealers'

30.11.2017

Huw Morris

Confidence in the planning system is plummeting amid a culture of 'planning by appeal', according to a poll of housebuilders.

Legal landscape: Minority report: what next for planning?

28.06.2017

Mathew White

The pledges made in the Conservative Party manifesto were heavy on promise but light on detail, and near silent on deliverability. So what happens now?

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