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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 鈥榗risis' and was 鈥榮tagnating growth in the countryside'

Rachael Brown
Chief Reporter
clock 鈥� 5 min read
Rural businesses face 'years and even decades' of waiting for planning permission

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

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