Project Speed on steroids: what do the infrastructure planning reforms mean?

In early September, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities announced that the examination period for infrastructure projects could be shortened from six months to four months, that there would be a forthcoming infrastructure action plan and that there would be fixed timescales for non-material amendments to Development Consent Orders (DCOs).

In an article for New Civil Engineer, legal director, Mustafa Latif-Aramesh, discusses what the infrastructure planning reforms mean in practice.

To read the article in full, please visit the New Civil Engineer website.