Will Proposed Legislation Cause a Bottleneck in the House Building Industry?

Will Proposed Legislation Cause a Bottleneck in the House Building Industry?

House builders will be stripped of planning permission if site development does not commence within 18 months after planning is ‘green-lit’, under new government proposals.

With England desperate for new houses, and close to a million plots across the country remaining unfinished, MPs argue that proposals put forward by the housing, communities and local government committee could speed up the rate of build and resolve England’s desperate shortage of homes.
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