TCPA

The local authority role in housing and planning must be acknowledged and supported at national and local levels as central to the government's levelling-up agenda.

There is nothing in the planning system to enable the promotion of net zero, according to Lord Deben, the chair of the Climate Change Committee (CCC).

Research has suggested that 80 per cent of shops and other commercial premises on English high streets could be lost as a result of changes to permitted development rights (PDRs) that came into force this month (August).

A programme with the ambition of the post-war new towns era is needed if the government is to meet both its bid to address the climate crisis and to deliver the affordable homes the country needs.