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England’s interim chief planner, Dr Michael Bingham OBE, has written to local planning authorities to draw attention to the measures in the Business and Planning Act 2020 to address issues arising as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

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’.