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functions is covered by fee income and so the Green Paper will look at alternative proposals and pilot new approaches to meeting the cost of planning where it improves the performance, speed and quality of the planning service. This is very welcome news. It is clear, however, that at some point
the Government needs to use a stick as well as some carrots. As the PAC report points out, the Secretary of State has powers, gifted to him by Parliament, to intervene when local authorities do not have a local plan, and ultimately take local planning away from a local authority. However, this power has been used rarely. The PAC claims that the Department is avoiding decisive action on this. The FMB will shortly be publishing
working with the Local Government Association and the Royal Town Planning Institute to investigate this. We have yet to see the response of this research, but it we are likely to find out more in the Government’s upcoming ‘Accelerated Planning Green Paper’. The Secretary of State for Housing
James Brokenshire MP recently gave some more information on what to expect in this Green Paper, stating that it will explore new approaches to meeting the cost of the planning service. In his speech at the Chartered Institute for Housing conference in June, he highlighted that only half of the £1bn spend on all local authority planning
the results of our 2019 House Builders’ Surveys and we will see if the bottlenecks in the planning system are starting to improve or not. However, anecdotally, we are hearing that members continue to be frustrated with the system, and local authorities are not fully informed of recent policy changes such as ‘Permission in Principle’, which could lead to greater capacity. If the Government wants to show it really cares about supporting small housebuilders, then accelerating the performance of the planning system would be a big sweetener.
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