Podcast 130 - Labour's Planning Reforms
Socialist correspondent
- Published
- April 3, 2025
- Duration
- 11:56
- Summary source
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- Last updated
- Jul 5, 2026
Discusses The Labour government has made reform of the planning system central to its efforts to increase grow…
Summary
The Labour government has made reform of the planning system central to its efforts to increase growth. There are problems with the system which has become increasingly fragmented and dominated by the private sector in recent decades. However Labour's response does not address the central problems and some of its proposals are quite negative, like changin…
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The Labour government has made reform of the planning system central to its efforts to increase growth. There are problems with the system which has become increasingly fragmented and dominated by the private sector in recent decades. However Labour's response does not address the central problems and some of its proposals are quite negative, like changing the designation of green belt lad so that it can be built on. It seems to entirely have forgotten its own history where previous Labour gover