The housing market has always had a central role to play in driving economic activity. Research shows that it supports almost 700,000 jobs and creates £38bn of economic output.
Yet the coronavirus crisis has seen activity grind to an almost complete halt. Planning activity has taken a significant hit too, with the number of applications submitted falling dramatically and the progress of ones that had already ben lodged slowing down. Plan-making has come to an almost complete halt.
Ensuring the planning system keeps going is central to delivering a post-crisis economic recovery. We need to be sure that there will be supply of planning permissions to be built.
In this piece for Housebuilder and Developer our managing director, Paul Smith, explains why we need to do more and what that could be.
