Recommendation 12

The Department explained how its reforms to the planning system were intended to speed up building and, through increasing certainty with the system, encourage more small and medium-sized developers to build homes. It told us that it was also looking to encourage a greater range and variety of homes on large sites, which it believed will encourage build out.31 It explained that it was seeking views on how it could further encourage build out and reduce the practice of developers buying land, then delaying building on the land acquired for which they have planning permission.32 Affordable housing