A mishmash of philosophies that does not seem to fit

摘要

Given the rapidly moving coronavirus situation, last Thursday's announcement by housing secretary Robert Jenrick of a raft of planning reforms seems a lifetime away, and it remains to be seen what, if any, impact the ructions caused by the disease will have on the government's policymaking efforts. The announcement was a strange mix of measures. Billed unhelpfully in the Budget the day before as a rethink of planning from first principles, in the event it was, of course, nothing of the sort.