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Nesil Caliskan Excerpts

Wednesday 2nd April 2025 Written Corrections

[Nesil Caliskan]

Planning and Infrastructure Bill

The following extract is from Second Reading of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill on 24 March 2025.

[Joe Powell]

…If we are serious about speeding up delivery, however, we must address the capacity crisis in planning departments, so it is welcome that the Government have committed to 300 new planners. What assessment has been made of the total need for planners across the country to get to the level of approvals we need to meet our housing targets? Can the planning fee reform in the Bill support that recruitment through full cost recovery? We know that planning reform must be matched by the people and resources needed to make it work.

[Nesil Caliskan]

I thank my hon. Friend for his speech and for highlighting the gaps that exist in local government. I am sure he will recognise that, as the Local Government Association and the National Housing Federation have said, only 80% of local authorities have the capacity at the moment—in fact, it could be far less.

[Official Report, 24 March 2025; Vol. 764, c. 718.]

Written correction submitted by the hon. Member for Barking (Nesil Caliskan):

[Nesil Caliskan]

I thank my hon. Friend for his speech and for highlighting the gaps that exist in local government. I am sure he will recognise that, as the Local Government Association and the National Housing Federation have said, 80% of local authorities are operating below full capacity at the moment.