
Spotlight on Planning 2025
Contains 3 articles"England's planning system is undergoing its most significant transformation in years"
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"England's planning system is undergoing its most significant transformation in years"

"As the new NPPF comes into force, many LPAs have seen major swings in land supply positions, bringing the presumption in favour of sustainable development into play across much of England"

"There is yet to be a material change in the number of sites gaining planning consent under the new NPPF, but more positive signals are coming through the appeals process"

"Updating Local Plans to meet new rules may prove a drawn-out process, with further complications to come from the move to a strategic planning system"

"Housebuilding falls to seven-year low amid shake-up of planning in England"

"To successfully deliver large sites, we need to plan them in the right places, guarantee S106 affordable housing demand, and ensure they have long-term patient funding"

"Meeting affordable housing need means providing for households excluded from the housing market alongside maintaining the current provision of affordable housing."

"Housing affordability is a major threat to the recruitment and retention of key workers"

"Demand improves and prices rise as the housing market begins to recover"

"Housing market remains weak, but outlook is improving and Wales will outperform the rest of the UK in the next five years, with price growth of 21.4%"