Berkeley warns over-regulation a drag on planning reform gains

House builder Berkeley has warned that building safety regulatory changes are placing significant pressure on the delivery of new homes and threaten to overshadow the upside benefits of recent Government planning reforms.
In a trading statement this morning, the firm said it had seen a modest improvement in demand. But it highlighted that for this to continue and sales rates to return closer to the levels of three years ago, there needed to be greater confidence in the trajectory of interest rat