The New Chancellor Rachel Reeves has set down the targets for the Government to unlock investment and growth and kickstart the country’s building programme
In a speech at the Treasury Reeves said
“We have done more to unblock the planning system in the past 72 hours, than the last government did in 14 years… we are going to get Britain building again.”
Work towards a decade of national renewal has begun, there is no time to waste… we’re just getting started” she told her audience
“Growth requires hard choices, choices that previous governments have shied away from, and it now falls to this new Labour government to fix the foundations.”
At the centre of this policy is the change to the planning laws and Reeves has announced mandatory housing targets and an end to the onshore wind ban to get “Britain building again”.
Labour,she said will create a new taskforce “to accelerate stalled housing sites in our country”
The announcements of the planning overhaul comes as Labour seeks to build 1.5m homes this Parliament
There will be a restoration of mandatory local housebuilding targets and a relaxation of planning restrictions on ‘ugly’ parts of the green belt
There will also be a presumption in favour of sustainable development
A Draft National Planning Policy Framework will be published before recess in August. Aim to implement changes in Autumn
