House Building Federation urges government to speed up planning

By Will Ing2018-07-27T06:00:00

HBF also calls for certainty over future of Help To Buy as it reveals economic worth of sector

The House Building Federation has warned that despite improvements to the planning system more needs to be done to speed up the start-to-end planning process, enabling builders to get on site more quickly.

And as the HBF revealed research showing a 74% increase in housebuilding activity in the past four years, it called on the government to provide certainty on the future of the Help to Buy scheme past 2021 – the date when prime minister Theresa May extended the initiative, introduced in April 2013, to last October.

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