PLANNING

Wanted: High quality planners

Sweeping changes to the National Planning Policy Framework are on the way but more planning officers will be needed to execute Labour’s housebuilding mission, writes Ben Standing

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After plenty of pre and post-election rhetoric about ‘getting Britain building again', the new Government has now shown its hand in the game of planning poker.

Labour knows it will live or die by its ability to make the necessary structural changes that will lead to more than 300,000 homes being built every year, equating to 1.5 million homes over the five years of this parliament.

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