Building homes on brownfield land will be turbocharged under a major shake-up to planning rules
Posted 13.02.24
GOV.UK: Further reading
The government has announced that every council in England will be told that they will need to prioritise brownfield developments. This includes being less bureaucratic and more flexible in applying policies that halt housebuilding on brownfield land.
The bar for refusing brownfield plans will also be made much higher for those big city councils who are failing to hit their locally agreed housebuilding targets.
Planning authorities in England's 20 largest cities and towns will be made to follow a 'brownfield presumption', if housebuilding drops below expected levels.
A consultation on these proposals will run until Tuesday 26 March and the government will look to implement these changes to national planning policy as soon as possible.
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