The use of Local Development Orders (LDOs) is one of a number of planning tools that councils already use to incentivise development in a way that meets a whole range of locally specific policy objectives and to show developers that they are ‘open for business'.
However, our submission outlines our concerns about the government's proposals to introduce national targets for LDOs on brownfield sites.
LGA submission:
Government consultation:
Building more homes on brownfield land - Consultation proposals