Planning Permission Rules Re-written

Once in a lifetime opportunity to build new homes, hospitals, schools, shops and offices without planning permission!!!

Maybe now we will see new housing developments pick up pace

Boris Johnson wants to create more affordable homes and so he is unveiling the biggest changes to the planning system we have seen since 1947. Our current planning rules are cumbersome and often obstructive to new developments, sometimes causing very long delays of up to 5 yrs for larger housing developments to get off the ground.

Under these new rules, land will be designated as one of three categories

1.   Land for growth - will allow new homes, schools and GP surgeries to be built automatically - if the council has judged there is a need for it, without any further planning applications required

2.   Renewal Areas – will give planning permissions in principle. This will most likely be in urban areas to make the process faster while allowing for appropriate checks, in order to regenerate high streets and allow new housing developments.

3.   Protected land - such as the green belt and areas of outstanding national beauty, will be banned from new development.