Video: Flexible planning permissions

In the confident, carefree, days of 2005 the Government cut the time period for implementing planning consents from five years down to three years. The aim was to prevent developers from creating land banks and delays in bringing schemes to the market. But the recession has provoked a rethink. The severe lack of schemes being started plus the lapse of permissions will have adverse effects. Which, put simply, means that both the time and money spent securing the permissions will be wasted, and the expiry of consents will lower land values even further.

So, at the end of last year, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) put in place measures to increase flexibility for planning consents during difficult economic times. This programme examines these measures and considers the practical effect.

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