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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Daniel O'Boyle

The CMA should tackle the biggest threat to competition in the housing market: our planning system

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)'s had a busy few weeks. Fresh from looking at vets, the watchdog’s now probing the £2.5 billion tie-up between housebuilders Barratt and Redrow to make a firm which would build about 23,000 houses a year.

And of course it’s been only three weeks since that same regulator published its big report into housebuilding as a whole. 

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