Government plans back on
The government will announce an update to its proposed planning reforms this spring, its chief planner Joanna Averley has said. The planning reforms were first announced in the ‘Planning for the Future’ white paper of summer 2020, but controversial proposals such as the introduction of a zonal planning system led to the Planning Bill being delayed. The Bill is due to go before parliament this year, although the government still needs to respond to a considerable 44,000 responses issued in a consultation over the reforms, which closed in January 2021.
Averley said that the update would “provide further detail on how we will take forward measures to create a modernised and effective planning system that empowers communities to support, and local authorities to deliver, the beautiful, environmentally friendly…
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