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The BPF response to the Government’s second technical consultation on the Building Safety Levy
A summary of the perspectives and feedback received through our May and June 2020 Regional Property Forums, focussing on the industry’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Our response welcomes the proposals to introduce a national scheme of delegation to create a more consistent approach to determining which applications go to planning committees, and which can be decided by planning officers. We also provide feedback on how councillor training can be made effective in practice as well as commenting on how the operation of planning committees can be improved more broadly.
The BPF strongly welcomes the consultation proposals to put development activity at the heart of the Government’s growth agenda and achieve a step change in housing delivery. We suggest ways in which the positive multi-tenure approach to housing can be improved further as well as setting out how the promising proposals for planning for employment can be even more impactful to deliver more economic growth and jobs.
The BPF Tenure Reform Working Group is publishing a series of working papers on residential tenure reform to obtain wider membership views. This second paper in the series covers the court process. Views would be particularly welcome from 1 April to 30 April.
Our response to the Bank of England’s consultation on the implementation of Basel 3.1 – which will have some implications for lending against real estate - including the introduction of a new prudent valuation metric and changes to risk weightings for some real estate lending.
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