{"id":9220,"date":"2025-11-24T08:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=9220"},"modified":"2025-11-24T08:46:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T08:46:37","slug":"reeves-set-to-hire-hundreds-more-planners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/reeves-set-to-hire-hundreds-more-planners\/","title":{"rendered":"Reeves set to hire hundreds more planners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Planning professionals could be one of the few beneficiaries of this week’s Budget.<\/p>\n

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to announce an extra \u00a348m to recruit 350 new planners – which works out at \u00a3137,000 a head.<\/p>\n

The move is part of the government’s mantra to “get Britain building”.<\/p>\n

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Reeves will look to increase the number of graduate planners and launch a Planning Careers Hub which will offer training programmes to support retention and open new routes into the profession.<\/p>\n

A Treasury source said: \u201cWe\u2019re putting an end to years of dither and delay of previous governments so we can get spades in the ground not stuck in the mud.<\/p>\n

“That means turbocharging the number of planners to keep pace with our ambitions to build 1.5 million homes and make 150 planning decisions on major infrastructure projects\u201d.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/pV7e1l8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Planning professionals could be one of the few beneficiaries of this week’s Budget. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to announce an extra \u00a348m to recruit 350 new planners – which works out at \u00a3137,000 a head. The move is part of the government’s mantra to “get Britain building”. Reeves will look to increase the number […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-9220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9221,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9220\/revisions\/9221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}