Planners and architects have hit out after the man appointed to set up the government’s new housing design advisor has expressed his support for the government’s controversial policy of expanding permitted development rights.

In the second part of an exclusive interview with Housing Today, Nicholas Boys Smith, former chair of the Building Better Building Beautiful Commission, and now chair of the advisory board overseeing the setup of the Office for Place, also put his support behind the government’s controversial planning reform agenda contained in last year’s white paper.

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