By Chris Dorrell Believe it when you see it was the attitude of many City economists to Labour’s promised overhaul of the planning regime. Successive Conservative governments tried to reform the planning regime, with little success. Planning applications, housing starts, housing completions are all heading lower. As Reeves herself noted in her first speech as Chancellor, “planning reform has become a byword for political timidity in the face of vested interests and a graveyard of economic ambition.” But within days of the new government taking office, it seems meaningful progress has been made…