"Ministers are making it easier to build new windfarms, reservoirs and large housing developments as part of a series of changes to the government's planning and infrastructure bill designed to bolster the confidence of developers. The changes which were first revealed by the Guardian will be confirmed on Tuesday by the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, as part of a pre-budget push to underline the government's commitment to economic growth."
"The outdated planning system has been gummed up by burdensome bureaucracy and held to ransom by blockers for too long. Our pro-growth planning bill shows we are serious about cutting red tape to get Britain building again, backing the builders not the blockers to speed up projects and show investors that we are a country that gets spades in the ground and our economy growing."
"Britain's potential has been shackled by governments unwilling to overhaul the stubborn planning system that has erected barriers to building at every turn. It is simply not true that nature has to lose for economic growth to succeed."
Ministers will relax planning rules to speed construction of windfarms, reservoirs and large housing developments as part of amendments to the planning and infrastructure bill. The changes reduce Natural England's role in some minor applications and allow turbines nearer seismic sensors in southern Scotland. Ministers can stop councils refusing permission while considering national call-ins, and officials say amendments respond to damaged investor confidence after earlier watering down. The chancellor aims for the bill to clear the Lords by 20 October so the Office for Budget Responsibility can include it in growth forecasts, potentially creating fiscal headroom.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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