Developers will benefit from a “presumption” in favour of planning applications if too few homes are built in a local authority area, under new planning rules.
Councils will have to pass a “housing delivery test” from November to avoid being stripped of the right to decide where homes should be built.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) described the introduction of the test under the revised national planning policy framework (NPPF) as “a speculative developers’ charter”.
The Telegraph added that CPRE said that green belt land will be under threat from developers because of the new Government planning rules.
