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Planning failure jeopardizes housing target Weaknesses in the local government planning system make it unlikely the government will meet its housing targets. Gordon Brown has pledged to build two million new homes by 2016, with a further one million, carbon-neutral, homes added by 2020 – but this is unlikely to come to fruition according to the Department for Communities and Local Government committee (CLGC). The committee argues the volume and variety of tasks required between now and 2020 will prove to be an insurmountable burden on the planning system. Furthermore, this failure could prompt a wider hindrance in the delivery of the government’s environmental priorities. Two key problems have been identified by the committee. Firstly a severe shortage of planning officers is likely to affect over half of all planning... [read full story]
