Ministers must press on with reform of planning system, Redrow boss says

By Carl Brown2021-09-16T09:19:00

Government has to do something, chief executive Matthew Pratt warns

The boss of one of the country’s biggest housebuilders has said the government still needs to press ahead with reform of the planning system amid suggestions certain proposals will be ditched.

Matthew Pratt, chief executive of £2bn-turnover Redrow, responding to reports that the government’s planning reforms will be watered down in the face of backbench opposition, said: “This was their [the government’s] fix, if this isn’t going to be their fix, what is going to be their fix?”

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