In June 2020, prime minister Boris Johnson announced a strategy to rebuild Britain and fuel economic recovery across the UK. As a result, the government later announced a raft of policies to kickstart a programme to “build back, better, build back greener, build back faster”.

Launching a new Infrastructure Delivery Taskforce, ‘Project Speed’, to deliver public investment projects; it would release new funding for green investments, projects and R&D; and, crucially, it would reform the planning system to “make it easier to build better homes where people want to live”.

Using data from EG Radius and insights from EG News & Legal, this whitepaper explores the crucial elements of the amendments that were made last year.

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PDR expansion to allow the demolition of certain buildings, which will be replaced with new homes

PDR expansion to allow the construction of new homes on top of certain existing buildings

The introduction of three new use classes, including a broad commercial, business and service use class