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Built environment broadly welcomes government’s NPPF changes

By 2024-12-13T13:39:00

Sir Kier Starmer and Angela Rayner at Urban&Civic's Alconbury Weald development (2) Credit Simon Dawson, 10 Downing Street

Focus on design quality praised but concerns remain around capacity of industry to complete schemes

The built environment has broadly welcomed the government’s revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) despite some experts warning there may still be some issues for viability of schemes.

Angela Rayner unveiled the government’s finalised plans to speed up the planning system yesterday in its formal response to its NPPF consultation, which sought views on proposals to enable the construction of 1.5 million homes by 2029.

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