Reforming and Speeding Up Planning
Nick Diment, director of Boyer (an LRG company), notes that the government's growth agenda is welcome, but it raises a complex question: can the objectives of speeding up plan-making and making significant changes to local government structures be reconciled effectively?
The government’s growth agenda is welcome but its commitment to speeding up plan-making while making significant changes to local government structures raises an important and complex question: can these two objectives be reconciled effectively?
To address this question, it is essential to explore the implications of both speeding up planning processes and restructuring local government systems. The two equally valid aspirations must be examined to determine whether they can work in tandem or risk undermining each other.
As Nick Diment emphasizes,
For better or worse, we have a plan led system.
Author's summary: Reconciling planning speed and local government reform is complex.