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Legislation Peter Stonham
LTT858 29 November 2022
Planning reforms on hold again as Gove focuses on ‘beauty and neighbourhoods’
The Government has been forced to postpone legislating for already long-delayed planning reforms after dozens of Tory MPs threatened to rebel.
MPs were set to vote last week on mandatory, centrally-set targets to build 300,000 homes a year.
But a total of 50 Conservative MPs - including eight former Cabinet ministers - signed an amendment to the Levelling-Up and Regeneration Bill which would have abolished the targets.
The Government said the vote had been pulled due to a packed parliamentary timetable.
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