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Planning reforms lead to housing quality fears

The quality of housing in England will suffer as a result of the government’s plans for “radical and necessary reforms” to the planning system.

That’s according to the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), which urged the government to make changes for the better, rather than simple deregulation.

The call came in response to an article in the Daily Telegraph by housing secretary Robert Jenrick, who pledged to cut red tape under a new system that will designate land as belonging to one of three categories: for growth, for renewal or for protection.

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