Ep124: How Angela Rayner wants to shake up planning committee decision-making

In this episode, we discuss:

• The housing secretary this week announcing radical changes to planning committee decision-making;
• The prime minister making the government’s national housing target and a promise to speed up major infrastructure consents one of its six parliamentary milestones in its Plan for Change;
• The government cutting its local authority planning performance assessment period for speed of decision-making from 24 to 12 months.

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