Entrepreneurs in Porto have called on authorities and municipal councils to cut the amount of red tape and time taken in approving real estate investments so that investors can invest quickly and [...]

Clearing a large part of planning licensing backlog piled up in municipal councils, setting clear rules on timeframes, certificating tacit deferrals, and streamlining and simplifying the hundreds [...]

Lisbon’s City Council’s planning chief has pledged to speed up the time it takes for the municipal council to deal with planning applications, the slowness of which has been a bugbear for over 20 [...]

Some projects in Lisbon are taking five years or more to receive planning permission from Lisbon City Council. A report by Jornal Económico tells of developers which are exasperated over delays [...]