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By Jessica Frank-Keyes Ministers have been urged to break Britain’s infrastructure “inertia” in a bid to turbocharge the planning system and ramp up growth, according to a think tank report. Streamlining the consent process, empowering key decisions in the national interest, fixing ambiguous laws, and updating policy documents would all contribute to the UK’s ability to build infrastructure efficiently, a Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) report argues. Titled ‘Accelerating Infrastructure: How to get Britain Building More, Faster’, the paper – by Dr Samuel Hughes, head of housing and co-author o…

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