Consultation has been launched on plans to revamp the National Planning Policy Framework.

Hundreds of thousands of new homes will be built under the biggest housebuilding surge in a generation, says the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), thanks to what it says would be ‘the most significant rewrite of planning rules in more than a decade’.

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