Fresh reforms aim to lift the ‘bureaucratic burden’ of planning committees

This is "radical reform unlike anything we have seen since the Second World War," declares the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, as the Planning for the Future consultation opens.

There's a mixed bag of reactions to the Government's proposed sweeping reform of the planning system.

PM pledges to ‘make it easier to build better homes where people want to live’ by cutting red tape and addressing ‘newt-counting delays’