Planning Special: Levelling Up Or Concreting Over?

<p>The prime minister has promised to "build, build, build" his way out of the country's economic slump, announcing a radical overhaul of Britain's planning laws which Number 10 says will spur house-building by cutting red tape.</p><p>But will it work? Dr Ben Clifford, associate professor at the Bartlett School of Planning at UCL, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Roger Hearing and Sebastian Salek why he's not convinced.</p><p>And can this government do what many before it have failed to do, and solve the housing crisis? Chris Wood, assistant director of research, policy and public affairs at Shelter, joins to discuss.</p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.</p>