Refurbishment Finance News:- Planning appeals are being assigned to an inspector within four weeks compared with an average of 13 weeks last year, but house builders have warned that local councils are still overloaded. The planning inspectorate said the reduction was due to 80 new inspectors being hired in November 2018. It added it was continuing to recruit with more senior inspectors anticipated to be in post by the autumn. A new decision making model where planning officers would examine [...]