Monday 21 November 2011

House builders lobbied cabinet privately to get planning relaxed | Politics | The Guardian

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.

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