Planning agenda unravelling...

[Paul Mobbs]

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Three new developments on the planning reform agenda:

Firstly, waste management seems to be an area where there's a lot of interest 
in liberalising controls over development. E.g., various headings today about 
a "Parliamentary group" and their report on waste planning. It isn't a proper 
Parliamentary body, it's the Associate Parliamentary Sustainable Resource 
Group -- a corporate lobby group that includes MPs and waste industry 
representatives. Its reports are commissioned/backed by industry but not 
publicly debated in Parliamentary fora.

See their site at http://www.policyconnect.org.uk/apsrg

The new report, "Rubbish to Resource: Financing New Waste Infrastructure" is 
online at 
http://www.policyconnect.org.uk/sites/default/files/Rubbish%20to%20Resource%20Financing%20New%20Waste%20Infrastructure.pdf

For summary see ‘Action needed now’ to secure waste plant investment, Lets 
Recycle, 6th September 2011 -- http://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-
news/waste-management/2018action-needed-now2019-to-secure-waste-plant-
investment


Secondly, according to the Torygraph, Ministers are not waiting the for the 
new planning reforms to be consulted upon/agreed by Parliament. Guidance to 
inquiry inspectors has reportedly been changed to implement the changes ASAP!

See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/countryside/8745764/New-planning-laws-
already-in-force.html

See also http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/countryside/8746231/Planning-law-
talks-due-between-National-Trust-and-ministers-as-anger-mounts.html


Finally, National Trust has made it clear what the root of these problems are 
- -- "We're not prepared to enter into such talks until we have a clear 
statement, from the highest levels of government, clarifying that the planning 
system is not there principally to promote economic development."

Perhaps they'll pressure to have the "high and sustained levels of economic 
growth" clause removed from the UK's sustainable development strategy too!

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-14816864



Ho hum!

P.

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