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Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025: NSIP overhaul, new planning fees and delegation, strategic plans, Environmental Delivery Plans and levy, development corporations, and compulsory purchase/hope value reforms

Published on: 18 December 2025

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The Planning and Infrastructure Act 2025

It represents the end point of the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which arrived in the House of Commons in March 2025. As it moved through Parliament, the Bill was repeatedly reworked at Committee, Report and Third Reading in the Commons, then further altered again by the Lords. In the government’s press release, the Act is cast very firmly as advancing a growth-first programme. It is widely hailed as a ‘landmark’ reform set to ‘tear down barriers to growth’ and to ‘get spades in the ground faster’, with Ministers explicitly highlighting its purpose in freeing schemes ‘stuck in planning limbo’ and in bringing forward more homes, cleaner energy and essential infrastructure at a much greater pace. The Housing Secretary has presented it as beginning ‘a new era to build 1.5 million homes’, while the Chancellor has underlined that it is meant to draw a line under years of ‘dither and delay’ on national flagship projects. The Act sits within the government’s broader planning and infrastructure reform agenda. Its objectives include accelerating delivery of major infrastructure, bolstering substantial housing supply in England, and simplifying procedures for nature recovery, development corporations and compulsory purchase. The Act is...

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