Planning reboot could spare SMEs from Building Safety Levy hit

Small builders look set to benefit from a major shake-up of planning rules, with ministers proposing possible exemptions from the Building Safety Levy and a new fast-track regime to get homes built quicker.
The Government has published a fresh set of proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework aimed at speeding up decisions to make smaller housing sites more viable for local developers.
A central move is the creation of a new “medium site” category for schemes of 10 to