Duncan Hames
Main Page: Duncan Hames (Liberal Democrat - Chippenham)
Monday 5th September 2011
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Duncan Hames (Chippenham) (LD)
Local communities, such as Chippenham, which choose to bring forward neighbourhood plans to facilitate redevelopment of their town centres may at the same time wish to restrict development of out-of-town and edge-of-town developments. Will neighbourhood planners have the authority to do that?
Greg Clark
Not only will they have the authority do so, but national policy will continue to be clear that retail developments should be in town centres first. That is crystal clear. It has been a very successful policy, which was first introduced by John Gummer when he was Secretary of State.