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You’ ve said planning reform should be judged by its impact on SME housebuilders. What would success look like in practice? Success would ultimately look like a system where SME housebuilders can quickly get planning for small sites without costly delays.
For small infill sites and developments on brownfield, these represent a huge opportunity for SME housebuilders, allowing them to acquire land and deliver small schemes that minimise impact on local infrastructure, while providing high quality developments and increasing local supply.
Given the relatively low impact of these developments, a planning system that provides a default‘ yes’ to sites that follow planning rules would drastically improve speed and certainty for SME developers. Without the need for drawn out planning committees and approvals, instead with officers being able to make the decision alone, this would be hugely beneficial, while reducing the overall burden on the planning system.
For SME housebuilders, this would allow them to move on site much quicker, reducing friction over changing build costs and terms of finance.
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