Sajid Javid

England’s chief planner will visit three of the 15 councils threatened with intervention for not compiling a local plan in order to assess whether the government should take over the process.

Housing secretary Sajid Javid has announced that £300 million is to be shared between Greater Manchester, the West of England, and Oxfordshire to deliver ‘thousands of much-needed’ new homes.

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.

A round-up of planning news in England: 3 February-9 February, 2018