Plans to do away with a regional planning system could put homes and infrastructure under threat, planning groups and developers have said. The decentralisation and localism bill, announced in the Queen’s Speech, pledges to get rid of regional spatial strategies and hand control of housing numbers to local authorities. However, the summary of the bill did not outline when this would happen or how a new system would be introduced to replace regional planning. Now planning groups and house builders say the abolition of regional planning could cause a drop in housing numbers unless the transition into the new system is carefully managed. They also warned that the loss of the regional planning tier would make it harder to coordinate development and infrastructure across council boundaries. Read the full story on the Inside Housing website.
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