22 Jun 2009

Planning consent extended to six years

The Housing and Planning Minister John Healey has announced that planning permission consents can be doubled from the current three years to six years, in a move to encourage building. The move echoes that of Steve Quartermain, chief planner at Communities and Local Government, who in May wrote to all planning authorities to extend the consent period to five years.

See the rest of Christopher Sell’s AJ article here.

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