Archive - Notes on Growth

The Planning Reform Reader

The best things to read about making it easier to build

8 hrs ago •

April 2025

March 2025

7 thoughts on the OBR scoring planning reform

What we learnt at the Spring Statement

Mar 28 •

How to break the Planning and Infrastructure bill

Let's not waste this opportunity to fix planning

Mar 24 •

Have we solved the bat tunnel problem?

And everything else you wanted to know about the new Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Mar 12 •

Why regulators need a ‘red team’

Good decisions require negative feedback

Mar 6 •

February 2025

January 2025

Growth is a policy choice

So here are some pro-growth policies to choose from

Published on Consumer Surplus • Jan 22

How to solve the £100m bat tunnel problem

Why new reforms could make it easier to build infrastructure and protect nature better

Jan 9 •

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