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13May,20

Planning laws amended to allow sites to work for longer

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has announced changes to the planning system to help support ‘safe’ construction. All Construction News These include allowing developers to agree more flexible construction site working hours with their local council. The aim of this is to make it easier to follow public health guidance onsite and stagger builders’ arrival times, […]

25Feb,20

40% of houses with planning permission not getting built

All Construction News More than a million homes granted planning permission in the past decade have not yet been built, according to new analysis by the Local Government Association. Latest figures show that 2,564,600 units have been granted planning permission by councils since 2009/10 while only 1,530,680 have been completed. That’s a completion rate of […]