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Boris Johnson announces 'most radical reform' to UK planning system since WW2

Proposals aim to make it easier to get planning permission to create new homes from retail and commercial properties but details are sparse
The Prime Minister delivered his address from Dudley today. Picture: GettyImages
The Prime Minister delivered his address from Dudley today. Picture: GettyImages
CoStar News
June 30, 2020 | 1:49 P.M.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has today announced what he has termed "the most radical reforms’’ to the UK planning system since the Second World War to tackle the nation’s chronic failure to deliver enough homes, which has resulted in swathes of the population being excluded from owning their own homes.

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