Rural businesses face 'years and even decades' of waiting for planning permission

Victoria Vyvyan, president of the CLA, said the country's planning system was in ‘crisis' and was ‘stagnating growth in the countryside'

Rachael Brown
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Rural businesses face 'years and even decades' of waiting for planning permission

Rural businesses in England are waiting years – and even decades – to get planning permission to enable investment and build homes, according to Freedom of Information requests compiled by the CLA...

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