The findings show that the new policy arrangement has revamped the planning system, reduced the roles of regional planners, and created a fast track that circumvents older, and slower, planning processes, in an attempt to increase the production of housing units, including affordable apartments.
The government could, however, boost the economy by tackling his bête noire, the country's "slow" planning system, he said.
But Britain's builders complain that a painfully slow planning process prevents them from building at the rate needed to keep up with demand.
XO Communications Inc., a telephone and Internet services company, may slow plans for expansion in Europe to ease investor concerns that it will spend too much money, analysts said.
Even China says it will slow plans to add 27 reactors to the 13 it has.
But many developers argue it is the slow planning system in Wales hampering the building of new wind farms.
Among them: Too much power is still concentrated in large companies, the Chinese bureaucracy can slow plans and different rules in different provinces, at times, can limit how big native Chinese companies can get.
I like details, the slow planning and the attention to detail it takes to sustain things.
"Planting has got to be slow, steady, planned and resourced.
Earlier this year Ms. Waters announced an ambitious gathering called Slow Food Nation, planned for next May in San Francisco.
