{"id":7125,"date":"2026-01-07T15:04:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/second-home.uk\/?p=7125"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T15:04:25","slug":"developer-council-deadlines-pushed-back-but-still-deemed-on-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/second-home.uk\/?p=7125","title":{"rendered":"Developer-council deadlines pushed back but still deemed \u201con time\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three quarters of large-scale planning decisions are being pushed back by councils and developers, The<em> Financial Times<\/em> reports.<\/p>\n<p>These extensions are known as \u201cperformance agreements\u201d, and their use means decisions are still counted as \u201con time\u201d in official statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for large-scale housing wait two years on average for a decision, a report commissioned by the Land, Planning and Development Federation said.<\/p>\n<p>This is a far cry from the 13-week target.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Risso-Gill, partner at law firm Charles Russell Speechlys, said: \u201cThese performance stats highlight the deep resourcing challenges many local planning authorities face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExtensions of time have become a convenient workaround, masking the real strain in the system. Even with historically low application volumes and recent government funding, councils are still struggling to process increasingly complex applications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the additional resources are deployed effectively, there is a real opportunity to make material improvement, but right now the system is still running on stopgaps rather than sustainable solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Performative agreements were intended to allow authorities more time to assess more complex developments, but their use has soared since 2015, when they were allowed to count towards timeline targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three quarters of large-scale planning decisions are being pushed back by councils and developers, The Financial Times reports. These extensions are known as \u201cperformance agreements\u201d, and their use means decisions are still counted as \u201con time\u201d in official statistics. Applications for large-scale housing wait two years on average for a decision, a report commissioned by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-second-home"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Developer-council deadlines pushed back but still deemed \u201con time\u201d - Second Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propertywire.com\/news\/developer-council-deadlines-pushed-back-but-still-deemed-on-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Developer-council deadlines pushed back but still deemed \u201con time\u201d - Second Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Three quarters of large-scale planning decisions are being pushed back by councils and developers, The Financial Times reports. 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