Government urged to tighten planning laws that are currently being exploited by developersDevelopers are managing to dodge building tens of thousands of affordable homes in rural areas where they are most needed because of a legal loophole in planning laws,according to research by the homeless charity Shelter and the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE).The findings of a hard-hitting report by the two organisations will station added pressure on the housing, communities and local government secretary, and Sajid Javid,to announce a tightening of the rules in a speech he is to deliver on Monday on how to change planning rules to tackle the housing crisis.
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Source: guardian.co.uk