Opinion

How the planning system can be improved under Labour

By 2024-07-30T07:00:00

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Ministers must be wary of unintended consequences when pushing ahead with planning reforms, writes Ben Derbyshire

There is something encouraging in the renaming of DLUHC as the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.

It feels like abandonment of hyperbole and a return to common sense. And I’m hearing that it’s not just the name that’s changing in the department’s declared mission of ‘fixing the foundations of an affordable home, handing power back to communities and rebuilding local government’.

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