> Exact details are still being finalised, but the threshold below which councillors cannot step in is expected to be set somewhere between ten and 100 houses. Once a project has outline permission, councillors will also not be given a say on details of housing style and layout.
Good but not great (which still means I’ll take it!). If the threshold is toward the lower end of the range then it will incentivise inefficiently small developments, and the mechanism risks pushing NIMBYs towards outright opposition at the outline stage.
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> Exact details are still being finalised, but the threshold below which councillors cannot step in is expected to be set somewhere between ten and 100 houses. Once a project has outline permission, councillors will also not be given a say on details of housing style and layout.
Good but not great (which still means I’ll take it!). If the threshold is toward the lower end of the range then it will incentivise inefficiently small developments, and the mechanism risks pushing NIMBYs towards outright opposition at the outline stage.