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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Planning for...destruction

Given the public's emphatic rejection of the plans to sell off our forests, you might have thought the government would tread more carefully with its reforms to the planning system.
But no. The proposed
new planning framework now out to consultation is, if anything, a worse threat to our countryside, because "economic development" (read "developers' profits") will override environmental protection...

Planning reforms are bigger threat to our countryside than forest sell-off Caroline Lucas Environment guardian.co.uk

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