Councils have hit back at possible government moves to
strip them of planning powers to speed up housebuilding by releasing analysis
that shows more than a million so-far unbuilt homes have been granted planning
permission in the last decade. The Local Government Association said its
analysis found 2,564,600 units had been given planning permission since 2009-10
and 1,530,680 had been constructed. The LGA argues the figures show that the
white paper should allow local authorities to build on land that has planning
permission, for example by assisting compulsory purchase on such land, and
allowing councils to charge full council tax on unbuilt developments. Read more
on the Guardian website.
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