This week the UK government announced "automatic" permissions as part of planning reforms
This week on Dezeen, the UK government came under fire as it announced its plans to deregulate and automatically grant planning permission for housing in England.
Alongside housing, the new planning system will also see schools, hospitals, shops and offices "automatically secured" planning on land that is designated for growth.
The regulations have been described by prime minister Boris Johnson as "radical reform unlike anything we have seen since the second world war" and are intended to facilitate quicker development, but UK architects claim the idea is "shameful" and that it fails to address the root causes of England's housing crisis.
RIBA calls for "urgent reconsideration" of proposals to deregulate planning Among the architects voicing their concerns was Charles Holland, who told Dezeen that "while the government has identified a lack of affordable housing as a major problem, this isn't an effective plan to deal with it", adding that "this is unlikely to be either beautiful or affordable."
The Royal Institute of British Architects warned that the system will lead to poor quality housing, with its president Alan Jones calling for "urgent reconsideration".
Jones claimed that "these shameful proposals do almost nothing to guarantee the delivery of affordable, well-designed and sustainable homes."
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