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ARTICLE · 07 JANUARY 2020

(How) Can Planning Speed Up Delivery? (Part 2)

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Part 1 of this blog considered the expectations and challenges around build out and some of the reforms proposed to address it.

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Part 1 of this blog considered the expectations and challenges around build out and some of the reforms proposed to address it. This part considers the implications of slow build out for local authorities and what they, and the planning system more broadly, can do to speed up delivery.

Accountability for delivery

Local authorities are at the sharp end of the slow build out problem. They have limited control over development once development is fully permitted but are increasingly going to be become accountable under the NPPF for delivery against their local housing requirements.  

According to the last Housing Delivery Test (HDT) results, 33% of LPAs have become subject to at least one of the NPPF 'penalties' arising from under-delivery. 19 further local authorities are likely to face another 20% buffer to their 5-year housing land supply in 2020 (Planning Magazine). If local authorities lack enough 'deliverable' sites to make up that level of supply, the

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