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Critics including RIBA president Alan Jones have called on the government to reconsider its planning reforms ahead of a policy paper on the new laws due to be published this week.

The sweeping reforms, which will introduce a form of zonal planning allowing automatic permission for developments in certain areas, are set to unleash the most radical changes to the planning system since the Second World War.

The proposals, trailed by housing secretary Robert Jenrick at the weekend, will see all land in England classified for either growth, renewal or protection. Land in 鈥済rowth鈥� areas will benefit from automatic permission, while land in urban 鈥渞enewal鈥� areas will benefit from permission in principle.

Jenrick said the government will ensure that new homes are built to high design standards but hasn鈥檛 said how quality will be enforced.

The government鈥檚 proposals come in the wake of an extension of permitted development rights which will allow developers to demolish vacant buildings and replace them with housing without a full planning application. Homeowners will also be allowed to add two storeys to their homes under the same system.

But the RIBA鈥檚 Jones warned the new laws could do more harm than good.

He said: 鈥淲e urgently need a broad mix of affordable, age-friendly and sustainable housing 鈥� but it looks as though this so-called 鈥榩lanning revolution鈥� will deliver the opposite.鈥�

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Jones added: 鈥淭he government has missed a huge opportunity to make changes to the planning system for the better and we call for urgent reconsideration. Deregulation is not the way to bring about new homes.鈥�

The reforms have been welcomed by some developers. Dean Clifford, co-founder of housebuilder Great Marlborough Estates, said: 鈥淭hese reforms will help support housing delivery in one of the most challenging environments in living memory.鈥�

However, others have argued they are unlikely to improve the system for developers quickly, given the reliance of a zonal system on local authorities allocating land in beefed up local plans.

Roger Tustain, managing director of planning consultant Nexus, said he welcomed the commitment to digitise planning, but said he didn鈥檛 believe a move to zonal system will speed up planning 鈥渋n the short term鈥�.

He said: 鈥淟ocal Plans, or any other statutory planning document, will need to be produced through a democratically inclusive process. Given the powers that these documents will have, the level of detail in terms of policy and design coding will need to be significant to ensure they facilitate socially responsible acceptable development.

鈥淲e all know the current Local Plan process is slow but more detailed Local Plans / Zonal Plans could take considerably longer to produce and lead to extended Local Plan Examination processes.鈥�

And Kate Henderson, chief executive at the National Housing Federation, said while her organisation supported any reforms aimed at creating affordable, inclusive, sustainable and beautiful communities, she was concerned that 鈥渇urther deregulation could in fact lead to the exact opposite鈥�.

Zack Simons, planning barrister at Landmark chambers, said the comments by Jenrick left a host of unanswered questions. He said: 鈥淚n reality, how 鈥渁utomatic鈥� is this green light to build, build, build? Who鈥檚 to decide whether or not the scheme meets the design codes and what happens if they don鈥檛? What about environmental impact assessment? Will the green light be subject to scale, height, massing or density parameters, and if so who fixes them and how?

The criticisms of the zonal planning reforms came as Mary Parson, chair of the Town & Country Planning Association, and a commissioner for the government鈥檚 鈥樅蒙�先生TV Better, 好色先生TV Beautiful鈥� Commission, wrote to prime minister Boris Johnson, urging him to abandon his proposed extension of permitted development rights.

In the letter, she said that the extension risked 鈥渃reating what will become the slums of the future, [鈥�] homes that are not fit to live in, to bring up children in 鈥� [and] that may have a catastrophic impact on the mental and physical health and wellbeing of the people forced to live in them and a blight on their future life chances.鈥�