Planning

Attaching automatic planning permission to housing land allocated in local plans in England would have limited impact on increasing the supply of homes, according to planners, surveyors, developers, financiers and built environment experts interviewed for a new study commissioned by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). The study tested how developers would react to a system akin to the ‘zoning’ approach used in the US, and explored the impacts of ‘planning risk’ which is often cited as a major development cost and barrier to accessing finance. It appears that while zoning-like mechanisms like PiP may be useful in limited cases, they would not make development significantly easier. It finds that ‘planning risk’ is used to describe a wide range of impacts, with a […]