A proposed overhaul of planning rules which is set to see “top down” housing targets scrapped as regulations are reviewed has been delayed until next month, according to reports in the national press.

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has declined to comment on the report in Times today, which said that the proposed changes to the planning system have now been pushed back until after the publication of the chancellor’s “medium term fiscal plan” on October 31.

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