Jenrick outlines ‘planning for the future’ reforms, with new rights to replace disused buildings with new homes

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.

"Planning in England is less effective than at any time in the post-war era", declares Nick Raynsford's team in the first comprehensive review of the planning system for a generation

Influential think tank Policy Exchange has published a blueprint for the "urgent wholesale reform" of the planning system, calling for a "clean break" with the current regime.