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Desmond Swayne Excerpts
Monday 23rd July 2018

(6 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Desmond Swayne Portrait Sir Desmond Swayne (New Forest West) (Con)
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21. How can we speed up planning without offending against the proper discretion of planning authorities?

James Brokenshire Portrait James Brokenshire
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If my right hon. Friend looks at the draft national planning policy framework, he will see that it is about plan policy: setting the high-level objectives and then allowing local areas to form their plans. I hope that when he sees the final NPPF he will recognise that.