Planning Permission
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she plans to take to modernise planning committees.
Answered by Matthew Pennycook
The King’s Speech announced that the Government would introduce a Planning and Infrastructure Bill to accelerate housebuilding and infrastructure delivery. This will include measures to modernise planning committees in order to improve decision making. Work on the Bill is underway and we will provide more details in due course.
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