Sentences with phrase «rigid planning laws»

Local councils can't decide whether «the structure should have the legal status of a tent, in which case yurtists can bed down in pretty much any field with the owners» approval, or whether it should be seen as a house, in which case France's rigid planning laws apply.»

The OECD also says that the main issues hampering economic growth in the UK are poor educational attainment at secondary level, lack of public infrastructure and rigid planning laws, rather than regulatory obligations, none of which would be directly improved by leaving the EU.