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Project Speed on steroids: what do the infrastructure planning reforms mean?

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In early September, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities announced that the examination period for infrastructure projects could be shortened from six months to four months, that there would be a forthcoming infrastructure action plan and that there would be fixed timescales for non-material amendments to Development Consent…

What planning reform is required to realise investment zone opportunities?

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In last week’s mini budget, the UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng made renewed commitments to address the UK’s “slow” and “fragmented” planning system. As well as applying tax incentives for businesses within proposed new “investment zones”, Kwarteng announced they would serve as “designated development sites” within which planning processes would be…