Planning Reforms Risk Being Undermined by Council Capacity Gap

Government efforts to accelerate housebuilding risk being undermined by a growing shortage of local authority planners, with new research suggesting councils need more than 2,600 additional staff to operate at full capacity.

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Government efforts to accelerate housebuilding risk being undermined by a growing shortage of local authority planners, with new research suggesting councils need more than 2,600 additional staff to operate at full capacity.

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