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Planning applications data

ended 29. September 2022

The latest planning applications data is being published at 09:30 today. If you'd like to have a pop at the notoriously poor planning system in this country, now is your time. Few Qs:

  • Have planning procedures improved, sped up or got worse over the course of 2022?
  • What should be done to speed up the whole planning application process?
  • What is the main problem with the planning system right now?

As ever, no need to write an essay, just a paragraph or two will do.

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Dorian Payne
Managing Director at Castell Group
The UK planning system is an omnishambles. Obtaining planning permission is more of a 'submit and cross your fingers' approach. It's playing a huge part in the current housing deficit, which is growing by the day. The statutory deadlines mean nothing and the amount of subjectivity that is rife in planning results in applications being delayed or declined for mere difference in opinions rather than policy compliance. One of the biggest issues is that the public sector planning system is severely under-resourced and any decent planning officers can make significantly more money in private practice. This country needs more houses but the planning system is part of the problem not, as it should be, the solution.
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Alastair Hoyne
CEO, Finanze Capital at Finanze Capital
One solution to the dearth of housing supply in the country is to ease the planning permission process for SME builders to avoid delays. Since they have limited operating capital unlike large builders, SMEs cannot afford to switch to multiple projects should local authority planners fail to respond to their requests. We need a planning overhaul and we need it quick.