House building industry sources sounded alarm at proposed
Government plans to give developers a timetable to build homes, or risk losing
their planning permission. The
long-delayed housing white paper will hit house builders which have been tasked
with helping to meet the Government’s target of one million new homes by 2020.
One major developer said that the 'use it or lose it' measure would be onerous
on the sector, potentially leading to fewer homes being built, more slowly. As
a result, house builders could seek smaller planning permissions in order to
get around the rules, and bottlenecks would develop in the already-stretched
planning system. Read more on the Daily
Telegraph website.
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