New planning reforms set in motion by Robert Jenrick, Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings are to be scrapped.

Plans aimed to curb councils’ power to oppose developments and speed up delivery of new homes in England announced in Planning for the future Autumn 2020 have been scrapped.

This has been crticised by property developers, who warn that it could undermine Boris Johnson’s plan to build 300,000 new homes a year.

The UK prime minister’s proposals for a “once in a generation” reform of the planning system, unveiled last August, aimed to curb the power of local councils to oppose developments in an attempt to speed up the delivery of new housing and infrastructure.

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