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Government backs SME builders to get Britain building
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Smaller housebuilders to benefit simpler rules with new reforms across land, regulation and finance.

Councils will get new powers to keep housebuilders on track to ensure they play their part to deliver 1.5 million homes.

Changes will mean more money in the pockets of hard-working people when they reach retirement, delivering on government’s Plan for Change

New analysis shows economy could be boosted by up to £7.5 billion over the next decade thanks to the pro-growth Planning and Infrastructure Bill
Clean energy projects, reservoirs, railway lines, and other major infrastructure to be built faster, under changes to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill will have its Second Reading in Parliament today.

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