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Every government tries to reform planning, and this government has tried harder than most to simplify it, eliminating thousands of pages of regulations, cutting out the regional layer and creating a new layer at the neighbourhood level. Yet, as of October, only 59% of all local authorities had managed to adopt local plans, and complex projects can take from six to 12 years to move from inception to grant of planning permission.
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Dittmar, H. (2019). Pink Zones to Lighten Planning Red Tape. In: My Kind of City. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-64283-037-8_30
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