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Michael Hunter

Berkeley boss calls for 'brownfield first' planning reform to boost London house building

The boss of the FTSE 100 firm that builds 10% of London’s new homes hit out at a sluggish planning regime today and called for a “brownfield first” approach to slash the time taken to approve urban redevelopment. 

Berkeley Group’s Rob Perrins backed what he called “the mayor’s aspirations on affordable housing and better homes”, but he singled out the main source of delays  as Sadiq Khan struggles to get development going:

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