Greener planning: Government unveils fresh planning guidelines, but will they deliver sustainable developments?

Madeleine Cuff
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Fresh draft of the National Planning Policy Frameworks makes local authority's role in managing rising temperatures and flood risk, but other green goals appear to have been downgraded

In the face of rising rates of homelessness, soaring house prices and a chronic shortage of social housing, the UK government yesterday sought to kickstart its plans to tackle Britain's "broken" housing...

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