{"id":36557,"date":"2023-05-23T17:20:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36557"},"modified":"2023-05-23T17:20:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T16:20:25","slug":"englands-council-leaders-defend-planning-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=36557","title":{"rendered":"England\u2019s Council leaders defend planning system"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-25710\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/planning_open_gov_lic_3-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Council leaders in England have hit back at a claim that local planning systems are preventing tens of thousands of homes from being built each year.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: for illustration &#8211; Open Government Licence v3.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>The MJ<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The Home Builders&#8217; Federation said the planning system was the &#8216;worst it has been for decades\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Local Government Association (LGA) admitted there were \u2018some resource concerns\u2019 in council planning teams, it insisted councils wanted to get on with building homes, with land for more than 2.6 million homes allocated in local plans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>An LGA spokesperson said: \u2018Councils have great ambition to get on with building homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But the right powers must be provided to incentivise developers to get building, including being able to charge full council tax for every unbuilt development from the point the original planning permission expires.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018More must be done to future-proof the sector and ensure planning departments can continue to enable the delivery of housing targets, including the affordable homes and infrastructure that the country needs.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themj.co.uk\/Council-leaders-defend-planning-system\/227742\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council leaders in England have hit back at a claim that local planning systems are preventing tens of thousands of homes from being built each year. image: for illustration &#8211; Open Government Licence v3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36558,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36557\/revisions\/36558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}