Call for government to rip up planning rules to aid economic recovery

By Joey Gardiner2020-04-16T05:01:00

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London Property Alliance calls for extension to length of permissions

A consortium of central London developers and landlords has called for government to rip up planning rules in order to support the recovery of residential development in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

The London Property Alliance has written to housing secretary Robert Jenrick calling for a two-year extension to existing planning permissions in order to ensure that permissions don’t expire during the current enforced lockdown of the industry.

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