Sunday, Jun 24, 2007
Faster planning decisions, slower house building.
Communities Department: Speedier local planning decisions
This, basically shows how planning departments are working hard to make quicker decision. Its hard to say that planners are causing a housing shortage and inflated prices when "86 per cent of Local Planning Authorities met or surpassed the Government’s target to decide 60 per cent of major applications within 13 weeks in the year ending March 2007". Believe me when I tell you that it is bloody hard work to make a decision on a major development within 13weeks, making sure that all locals and council specialists have time to comment, with councillors being given time to make decisions in committee.
Posted by planning4acrash (previously known as pr) @ 08:29 PM (160 views) Add Comment
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1. cyril said...
My sentiments exactly. As time goes on, it's becoming increasingly obvous that the planning system is a red herring in the house prices debate (or at least it only plays a relatively minor role).
I thought this should have been fairly obvious to the powers that be, because house prices have gone up in the USA in states where the planning rules are lax and the supply of land is high but they haven't gone up much in Germany, which I expect is a bit more strict on planning ? As Bill Clinton said, it's the economy stupid.
2. Planning4acrash said...
Yes, German house price stagnation is probably more to do with things like very strong rent controls, restricting the froth from BTL speculators who think they can raise rents by 5% a year, and must have a lot to do with unemployment there. European planning, in general, is less flexible, with less rights for the developer to challenge a decision. These countries tend to have and strict regulations, based on Roman law rather than our flexible policies, based on Anglo Saxon law, that evolve with precidents and can be interpreted and moulded to circumstance.