CIOB Virtual Roundtable – UK Government’s Planning Reform Working Paper’s

Summary

The CIOB Policy & Public Affairs team are hosting a virtual roundtable event to garner industry views on the Government’s recent announcements on its intentions to free up the planning system and get Britain building.

The virtual roundtable will help inform our responses to the planning reform consultations mentioned below that are currently running alongside these announcements.

Details

The government’s first release, published on 25 May, followed initiatives to reform the English planning system to make it easier and faster for housebuilders to achieve the ambitious 1.5 million new homes target.

Key to this press release was information on new accountability mechanisms to make sure housebuilders are fulfilling their side of the bargain and delivering sites at speed, rather than leaving sites “half-finished for years”.

Councils will also get new powers to penalise developers that repeatedly fail to build out consented sites or use planning permissions to trade land speculatively – known as the ‘Delayed Homes Penalty’.

The second press release, published on 28 May, centred around the government’s plans to reinvigorate the SME housebuilding sector, which in previous decades delivered the majority of new homes.

The plans include streamlining the planning process further for SME housebuilders by taking away the decision-making powers from local authority councillors on sites of up to nine homes, instead having decisions on these sites made by planning officers alone. The streamlining process also includes relaxing rules on biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements for small sites of up to nine homes.

Please register your interest and a member of the Policy Team will send out further details and the Teams link.

Members: gain 3 CIOB CPD points when you reflect on the ethical aspects of your learning from this activity.

Please note: this event is for over 18’s only.

Online Platform

The webinar will be held using MS Teams. Please register your interest on Eventbrite then prior to the session, you will receive an email contaning the Teams link.

CIOB Assist

The webinar is free to attend, but if you would like to make an optional donation to CIOB Assist you can do this during the registration process.

Time Zones

The webinar is being advertised in the GMT/BST time zone, but you can easily see the local time for the webinar using World Time Buddy: www.worldtimebuddy.com/.

Contact

David Barnes

Head of Policy and Public Affairs UK

dbarnes@ciob.org.uk How can we help you get the most out of this event? We want to ensure accessibility for all of our members. Please contact us in confidence prior to attendance and we will do our best to answer any questions and support any additional needs you may have.