Former Tory minister may become Labour’s ‘planning tsar’

Former Tory minister may become Labour’s ‘planning tsar’

Approach made to Nick Boles as Starmer prepares to announce immediate changes to regulations

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Labour has approached a former Conservative minister to help steer through its proposals to bulldoze planning rules, with a flurry of changes expected within days to “get Britain building” millions of new homes.

Nick Boles, who was a planning minister in David Cameron’s coalition government, has been approached for a review of the UK’s National Planning Policy Framework, with the aim of making it easier to build homes, laboratories, digital infrastructure and gigafactories.

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