A warm welcome for measures to speed up planning decisions

Organisations within the construction, property and rental industries have welcomed the government’s new Planning and Infrastructure Bill. The bill, which has been introduced to Parliament, will see significant measures introduced to speed up planning decisions to boost housebuilding. Brendan Geraghty, CEO, Association for Rental Living, said: “The Association for Rental Living broadly welcomes the introduction […]
The east of England sees high numbers of successful planning applications
The east of England is one of the areas of the UK currently seeing some of the highest levels of successful planning applications each month. Research has shown that across the UK, almost 24,500 planning applications are received on average each month at the moment, with just over 20,500 (84 per cent) of those successful. […]