Housing minister shoots down idea floated by Maroš Šefčovič designed to help reset UK-EU discussions
The Conservatives have claimed that the government’s local government reorganisation will hold up attempts to speed up planning applications.
In a response to the plans announced today to limit the extend to which judicial review can be used to hold up developments, Kevin Hollinrake, the shadow levelling up secretary, said the Tories approved of streamling the planning system, but did not believe Labour would do it properly. He said:
Labour ministers have … sat on their hands on implementing the measures introduced by the Conservatives to cut bureaucracy and provide greater certainty to local residents and developers and abolishing and replacing hundreds of local councils and asking all their employees, including planning officers, to reapply for their jobs is hardly a recipe for accelerating decision-making.
The Conservative party is under new leadership and we will come forward with real plans, not empty announcements, to get Britain building.
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