The anti-developers have won as government signals full retreat on planning

By Joey Gardiner2022-05-17T07:51:00

We have come a very long way indeed from the planning white paper set out by Robert Jenrick in August 2020, writes Joey Gardiner

As Dorothy famously told her dog Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore. It is clear both from the detail of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill itself, and the accompanying briefing policy paper, that the government has come a very long way indeed from the planning white paper set out by Robert Jenrick in August 2020.

Then, in the wake of the first covid lockdown, and inspired by the revolutionary politics of Dominic Cummings, the prime minister promised to level English planning to its foundations and build a new system in its stead; a system with growth zones in every local authority, where developers would benefit from automatic

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