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As Keir Starmer addressed the Labour party conference today, Claire Petricca-Riding Head of Planning & Environment at Irwin Mitchell made the following comments :
“What the country needs is a vision, a strategy showing a new direction after the cancelling of HS2 or what some have described as ‘cancelling the future’. What Labour says it will provide is the framework to build a new Britain and at the heart of it will be the increase in housing - providing a safe home for all generations – to get Britain building over the next decade – a decade of national renewal.
The plan? To create 1.5 million homes over the next Parliament – to buy or rent – with communities having a say on how these homes should be delivered.
This will mean a new generation of new towns near cities and the release of land in the not so green –- all the shades of grey – green belt as well as providing additional powers to local authorities and establishing a new presumption in favour of development or a ‘planning passport’ on brownfield;as long as design principles are met.
This will be welcome news to a sector where the last year of uncertainty, raising inflation and interest rates as well as the near collapse of local plans means that planning applications for housing developments have fallen to a record low.
It is certainly a bold statement from the opposition – selling a vision and strategy – ‘Together we fix tomorrow’s challenges today’.