The SLCC has submitted its response to the UK government consultation on their Planning for the Future White Paper (August 2020). We have listened to the views and concerns of our membership and submitted a detailed and robust submission to MHCLG. The SLCC will continue to lobby on your behalf on all issues of importance
The Prime Minister has stated that the Government plans to “bring forward the most radical reforms to our planning system since the Second World War”. Under what Mr Johnson MP dubbed “project speed,” planning laws would also be streamlined to encourage building. Further details are expected in the Planning White Paper, which is expected to
Support to parish councils who wish to build a small number of homes to allow their communities to grow, a fully digitised planning system, reform of how local housing need is calculated and new rules to encourage building upwards are among the proposals ‘to bring Britain’s planning system into the 21st Century’ that will be
