Opinion

Finding the way to build back better

By 2020-11-19T07:00:00

Flora Samuel crop

New administrative groupings are needed in government and local authorities to ensure joined up strategy across the health, social care, transport and planning agendas, Flora Samuel writes

The pandemic offers a real opportunity to build back better, both for future resilience and to address the climate change emergency – which has not been forgotten. 

Changes to the planning system to accelerate economic growth have been shown not to work. Planning is too important to be done hastily, so I hope the great efforts that everyone has been making to respond to the recent Planning for the Future consultation have some traction.

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