Changes to help simplify the planning process are to be phased in as part of the Red Tape Challenge.
Unnecessary red tape that is no longer needed and which added to the cost of providing new houses and enterprises will be cut as part of the Red Tape Challenge.
These changes will help to reduce and consolidate planning regulations but will not change planning policy or environmental protections.
Planning Minister Nick Boles said: “We’re doing what we can to streamline the planning system and remove unnecessary burdens where we can, to create a smooth journey through the building process.
“By removing unnecessary red tape and consolidating regulations we are able to make the planning process more efficient and accessible, and easier for people to use.”
The changes will:
- consolidate the rule on permitted development which have been amended 17 times and need an overhaul to make them easier to understand;
- tackle unnecessary and overly burdensome requirements in the application process;
- scrap 38 redundant regulations that are no longer needed.
A phased programme will now begin to reduce the number of technical planning regulations down to 78- a reduction of 57% as part of the government’s challenge to make sensible changes to regulatory burdens.
