Planning regs to be relaxed.

Since it is actually finance, not planning regulations, that is preventing a lot of building work from taking place – whether constructing new houses or adding extensions – I can't see that this will make a great deal of difference. Presumably building regs will still apply.

I hope building regs will still apply! Don't want said extensions falling down on the heads of future occupants. Surely they will!

Who knows?

You are right though. People can't afford it anyway.

How do they dream this stuff up!

First sentence of article: "Under new rules to be introduced in April 2013, checks will no longer be routinely carried out on premises considered to be low risk, like shops."

They're only talking about low risk. Where risks are high, regulations will still be checked and kept in place.

Not a problem, then.

Well, I think they are thinking more of the user of the business rather than the employees.

Bags are you talking about planning regs or health and safety checks?

Health and Safety checks. What happened to the link? I used it to go to the Beeb article. Maybe I got mixed up between threads. Can't keep up with jings when she's on a roll.

There's an interesting article on the Telegraph site today which mentions that 80% of planning applications get through anyway and suggests Cameron is out of touch with suburban voters. I would be certainly very annoyed if my neighbours decided to build out 30 feet in a way that would cut out the light to my kitchen.
blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/iainmartin1/100180041/does-david-cameron-understand-the-suburbs/

I thought I put on here - to the Beeb website.

I can't keep up either.

put a link