The government should consider allowing developers to pay for faster planning decisions, a report has recommended.

The report, published by The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and the pro-development YIMBY Alliance, outlines several recommendations for speeding up housing development by creating ‘predictable and streamlined’ planning rules.

It said ministers should “consider allowing developers to pay for faster decisions and requiring decisions from local planning authorities to be delivered within deadlines that are enforced by penalties”.