Planning departments have the worst workforce shortages, with 84 per cent of local authorities experiencing recruitment and retention issues.
A shortage of planning staff could thwart the government’s ambitious housebuilding plans, councils have warned.
It comes after ministers announced £550million of investment from major firms Schroders, Man Group and Resonance, who have committed to deliver affordable housing across the UK. Councillor Richard Wright, DCN’s planning and growth spokesman, said: ‘Planning departments have been among the most impacted in recent years as shrinking budgets have forced councils to reduce spending but if the Government’s housebuilding revolution is to succeed we need a step change in the recruitment and retention of planners.
‘So I urge the Treasury to properly resource planning authorities if it wants the Government to achieve its most fundamental goal of ending the housing crisis.’
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