From the CPRE website:
Please ask your MP to say no to growth at any cost.
The planning system is under attack from the Government's planning reforms and the protection of precious countryside is going to be seriously weakened. We urgently need your help to fight back.
The reforms represent the biggest shake-up of planning for over 50 years. They will place the countryside under increasing threat and leave local communities and planning authorities largely powerless in the face of developer pressure.
Please write to your MP asking them to raise your concerns about the planning reforms, and in particular the draft national planning policy framework, with the Minister, Greg Clark. We've drafted a letter you can use.
All of us who care about the countryside - as well as the vitality of our towns and cities - need to stand up for what we value. Unless we act now, there will be uproar across the country as local communities discover in the months and years to come that the planning system and its ability to protect the countryside have been undermined by these reforms currently being pushed through.
Monday, 8 August 2011
Say no to growth - at any cost!
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It's a classic wheeze. Pretend that the reforms do something that people generally don't like, set up a campaign, shout loudly and then complain again when the reforms are reformed a bit more to your liking.
The planning reforms, of course, do nothing like make available space to build stuff that we need.
BE, the whole thing seems like meaningless guff to me. Let's see if the Lib-Cons achieve their target of keeping new resi construction below the magical 100,000 mark. I think they managed it in the first year in office.
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