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Additional Plans Chairs meeting discussing the Govts proposed changes to the Planning System. Ostensibly these are to boost house building & assist econ recovery
ALERT: they won’t.
There are no incentives or compulsions to make Develipers build current or new permissions.cont.
ALERT: they won’t.
There are no incentives or compulsions to make Develipers build current or new permissions.cont.
The problem in the UK is that the advantage is already VERY FIRMLY with Developers & land owners AND NOT with Councillors & communities.
The central problem is that Developers build VERY SLOWLY. Permissions are hoarded to aid share prices and inflate house prices.
The central problem is that Developers build VERY SLOWLY. Permissions are hoarded to aid share prices and inflate house prices.
The Planning system since 2010 has been twisted to disincentivize Developers from building. Bizarre but true. If over a number of years new house builds fall below the Councils projections then the Govts Planning Inspector will mandate that additional sites are released.
These sites are often ones the Council & it’s communities are much less keen on seeing developed & could be choice green field sites that are much easier to build upon than a Councils preferred sites, very often brownfield ones (which have additional costs).
Thus there is a huge disincentive built into the system. The Govt proposes to do nothing to change this. Quite the opposite. This is madness visible.
Developers should be at the rear of the priority list, not the front. They will profit anyway but planning decisions last....
Developers should be at the rear of the priority list, not the front. They will profit anyway but planning decisions last....
....lifetimes and thus local democracy & communities need to be ahead of them. This is not to see rampant NIMBYISM. Instead it is to see sustainable, well planned communities built that local people welcome rather than fight. Allowing Developers to throw up inappropriate....
....housing with no regard to sustainability, local services, active travel, carbon reduction, green spaces etc is about as far from where we need to be as possible.
Why does this happen? Because developers & landowners are very good at lobbying Tory ministers & backbenchers.
Why does this happen? Because developers & landowners are very good at lobbying Tory ministers & backbenchers.
(And previous Govts to boot-the Sustainable Homes Code was junked w/LibDem acquiescence 9 years ago. This tweet is your regular reminder that if they hadn’t we wld be in yr4 of all new homes being zero carbon - that’s approx 550,000 units w/attendant mature&low cost industries
AND so far there is little sign that Govt understands the need to put zero carbon homes at the centre of their approach to planning & recovery. I will watch keenly to see if this changes. The UK is perilously close to embedding till at least 2024 v damaging planning policies.
