Localism in Planning
Debate between Roberta Blackman-Woods and Annette Brooke(11 years, 4 months ago)
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Roberta Blackman-Woods
I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for that intervention. We did not oppose the NPPF and I certainly did not argue for the retention of the regional spatial strategies. I must put that on the record.
In many places, planning criteria have worsened.
Annette Brooke
If there had not been a change in Government, a new town, which was not supported by any democratically elected person in any council, would be on its way by now in a beautiful village in Dorset. We have moved on from those top-down regional spatial strategies.