Planning
Builders, NGOs and planners demanded planning reform - now as it’s being delivered nobody wants it
The government’s landmark planning bill was supposed to speed up planning applications, but many industry observers feel that’s already happened
Following years of demands for planning laws to be redrafted, many developers, environmental groups, planners and legal experts who spent years pushing for reform are finally in agreement: they no longer want it.
The landmark piece of legislation, which goes before politicians again this week to be scrutinised, was years coming to fruition and the result of 15 months of drafting by the Office of the Attorney General before being presented to government in October ...