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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
David Hughes

Starmer vows to put ‘builders not blockers first’ with changes to planning rules

Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner have announced changes to planning policies (Gareth Fuller/PA) - (PA Wire)

Sir Keir Starmer vowed to override planning “blockers” with sweeping changes that could see building on parts of England’s green belt.

The shake-up will see councils given mandatory targets to deliver a total of 370,000 homes a year in England.

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