Planning
The planning measures in the Act have been informed by more than 40,000 responses to the Government’s 2020 White Paper ‘Planning for the Future’ 9 , and the subsequent inquiry into planning reform by the Commons Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee 10 .
	Planning is critical to the Government’s ambition to level-up the country. The new system will be based on the principles of: beauty, infrastructure, democracy, environment and neighbourhood engagement. How the Act addresses each of these five principles is set out below.