The UK’s planning system needs a radical shakeup if the country is to truly take advantage of the benefits of modern methods of construction, according to a report by consultant Arup.

The firm said the existing planning regime was “too rigid and unaccommodating” to be able to drive forward the use of MMC “on a meaningful scale”.

Arup’s report, How Modern Methods of Construction can deliver more through the planning system, argues for a number of changes which it claims spell out the “opportunities, actions and benefits which could help local planning authorities and users of the system reap the rewards” of MMC.