Residential and development

RESI: Pidgley lambasts “stupidity and ridiculousness” of planning system

By 2018-09-13T11:13:00

Tony Pidgley

Berkeley Group chairman Tony Pidgley has lambasted the planning system for being too slow, branding some council planning departments “awful”.

Speaking on a panel at Property Week’s RESI convention entitled ‘Why are we no closer to solving the housing crisis?’ Pidgley cited planning as the biggest barrier to bringing forward new developments.

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