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By Hamish Champ2020-03-13T13:37:00
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RICS joins RIBA in slamming proposals to allow developers to pull down vacant buildings without planning permission
Bodies representing UK surveyors and architects have questioned the logic of a key plank of the government’s proposals to reform the planning system.
Announcing the publication of a planning white paper later in the spring, housing secretary Robert Jenrick yesterday said developers would be able to pull down vacant commercial, industrial and residential buildings and replace them with what he called “well-designed homes”, without being held up by “a lengthy planning process”.
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