House builders lobbied cabinet privately to get planning relaxed | Politics | The Guardian
Britain's biggest housebuilders privately lobbied cabinet ministers to secure a significant relaxation of the planning system, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.
The chiefs of housing firms, including Barratt, Bovis and Redrow, insisted that ministers introduced a planning policy that would mean the default answer to applications would be "yes" – a presumption that would hugely boost their business prospects.
Ministers included the "presumption in favour of sustainable development" as a key plank of the draft national planning policy framework (NPPF), which is due to come into force next spring.
No comments:
Post a Comment