Experts unhappy with adviser’s defence of planning reforms

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Source: Tom Campbell

Last month housing secretary Robert Jenrick backtracked on white paper reforms

Planners and architects have hit out at the government’s new housing design adviser after he expressed his support for the policy of expanding permitted development rights.

In an exclusive interview with Building, Nicholas Boys Smith, former chair of the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission, also backed the planning reform agenda contained in last year’s white paper.

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