The UK government has laid out proposals to speed up planning approval for developments, which prime minister Boris Johnson described as "unlike anything we have seen since the second world war".
In a report published today titled Planning for the Future, the government details plans for upcoming changes to the planning system in England.
Housing minister Robert Jenrick had already announced plans to expand permitted development rights, prompting the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to brand the proposals a "disgrace".
Report outlines "radical reform" for planning
Prime minister Boris Johnson described the existing planning system as a "relic" that's "outdated and ineffective" in a foreword to the white paper. "The whole thing is beginning to crumble and the time has come to do what too many have for too long lacked the courage to do ? tear it down and start again," said Johnson.
"That is what this paper proposes. Radical reform unlike anything we have seen since the second world war."
"Not more fiddling around the edges, not simply painting over the damp patches, but levelling the foundations and building, from the ground up, a whole new planning system for England," he added.
Automatic approval for designated areas
The reforms include redrawing local plans produced by the Local Planning Authority (LPA) so that land would fall into only one of three categories: growth, renewal or pr...