Angela Rayner moves to protect pubs from being turned into houses or offices

Housing secretary says developers will have to prove there is no way to save pub, as she prepares planning shake-upAll pubs will get protection from being turned into housing or offices under a shake-up of planning laws in England to be presented by Angela Rayner this week.The housing secretary will publish a new national planning policy framework aimed at loosening planning laws even further to help build 1.5m homes by the end of the parliament. Continue reading...