Government Lays Down Planning Rules For Future Housing

Councils get an easier challenge to poor quality and unattractive development and communities a greater voice as to how developments should look and feel under new government guidance. To help tackle unaffordable house prices in many areas across the country, the framework sets out a new way for councils to calculate the housing need of their local community-  including different forms of housing, such as retirement homes. The LGA has described it as “hugely disappointing” that the rules didn’t reflect its concerns over nationally set housing targets. Read more on 24housing.

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