Housing developers should be given an “enormous shot in the arm” and charged council tax and business rates as soon as planning permission is granted, a Tory former minister has urged. John Penrose told MPs “the meter should start running” immediately after developers are granted permission in order to ramp…
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A housing masterplan should have been ‘bolder’ by recommending multi-storey housing blocks for places like Weston-super-Mare instead of creating new ‘garden villages’, according to MP John Penrose. Mr Penrose, MP for Weston and the surrounding villages, was responding to a consultation for the West of England’s Joint Spatial Plan (JSP)…
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Further to his “Build Up, Not Out” campaign, John Penrose MP (former architecture and heritage minister and chair of the APPG on Housing & Planning) said: “Changes to planning guidelines, although they’re certainly welcome, won’t be enough to solve Britain’s housing crisis on their own, or to stop prices from…
Read MoreDevelopers and home owners in built-up areas will be allowed to extend the height of properties without planning permission under plans expected to be announced by Theresa May. The Prime Minister is expected to use a speech on housing tomorrow to announce proposals to give local authorities the power to…
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