Housebuilding industry figures have welcomed the government’s decision to press ahead with a root and branch shake-up of the planning system as part of a forthcoming planning bill confirmed in the Queen’s Speech today.

The bill, which is expected to be brought before Parliament in the autumn, is being designed to enact planning reforms trailed in last summer’s planning white paper, in which prime minister Boris Johnson said he wanted to “level the foundations” of planning and create an entirely new system.

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