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Podcast 130 - Labour's Planning Reforms

Socialist correspondent

Published
April 3, 2025
Duration
11:56
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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