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Poor design will no longer get through planning, warns Jenrick

By 2019-10-24T06:00:00

Robert Jenrick

Housing minister promises ‘generational’ changes to planning system

Developers who try to get poor-quality schemes through planning will find the door shut in their face under a major overhaul of the system, the new housing secretary has warned.

Robert Jenrick promised systemic changes to what he branded Britain’s “broken” planning system, through a series of measures including local versions of a new national design code and a planning white paper.

Design and community involvement would be at the heart of the process, he said.

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