Reform to planning systems to ensure construction activity can continue to operate at its “usual pace” has been agreed to at the National Planning Ministers’ Forum.

State and local planning systems and the development approvals pipeline must continue to function during the Covid-19 crisis, federal minister Alan Tudge said in a release on Monday.

The agreement sets out a series of principles, including consistency between jurisdictions and the instruction that “all reasonable effort” must be made to maintain the usual pace of planning approvals.

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