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Planning Reform 2025: A New Era for Housing Delivery?

  • Sep 30, 2025
  • 1 min read

The UK government is promising major planning reform to deliver 1.5 million homes. But will changes to green belt rules, brownfield incentives, and local plan processes truly unlock supply?


Analysis


The Opportunity. Faster approvals will bring forward development land at scale.


The Challenge. An archaic planning system teamed with local politics and poor resourcing remain constraints.


The Policy Shift. A rebalanced system may favour strategic sites and proactive, development positive councils.


The Market Angle. For developers and investors, navigating reform means new risks and new opportunities.


Dimora’s Perspective. Our advisory services keep clients ahead of policy changes, ensuring sites are structured, planned, and funded to succeed in a shifting landscape.


Need clarity on how planning reform will affect your pipeline? Dimora can help you adapt with confidence.

 
 
 

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I'm Al

I’ve spent over 20 years in real estate, working across housebuilding, regeneration, build-to-rent, single-family housing and mixed-use development. In that time, I’ve helped take projects from early ideas and messy sites through to funding, planning, delivery and real communities.

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