Planning rules aren’t just ‘red tape’ – they’re essential for building affordable homes people actually want to live in
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Watch live: Labour outlines housing shakeup as 1.5m new homes to be built in next five years
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London housebuilding target cut in boost for Khan
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King’s Speech: Labour to slash planning red tape to deliver 1.5 million homes
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Gove’s shake up ‘won’t touch surface’ of property crisis, says housing boss
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Michael Gove to overhaul planning laws to help young people onto property ladder
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Gove to announce plans to make home extensions and loft conversions easier
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Outdated planning laws stopped millions of homes being built
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Whole streets to get veto on what is built in their area
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Gove delay to planning reforms ‘will mean more young people in overpriced rented homes’
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Councils have to play a much bigger role if we are to fix the housing crisis
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