Report

Accelerating Infrastructure

This report from UK think tank the Centre for Policy Studies looks at how to get Britain building more, faster.

One of Britain’s most pressing problems, as the new government has acknowledged, is how difficult it is to build the infrastructure we need. Infrastructure in Britain is much harder to build than it was historically or than it is today in continental Europe.

In a new paper, Dr Samuel Hughes – co-author of ‘Foundations’ and Head of Housing at the Centre for Policy Studies – suggests a series of specific changes to speed up infrastructure delivery.

The recommendations, developed in conjunction with leading planning lawyers, focus on streamlining the consenting process, empowering governments to make key decisions in the national interest, fixing ambiguous laws, and updating the policy documents governing decisions to make them clearer, more proportionate and more effective