Lib Dems threaten rebellion over rural planning reforms

[Tony Gosling]

Lib Dems threaten rebellion over rural planning reforms
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lib-dems-threaten-rebellion-over-rural-planning-reforms-7584908.html
Andy McSmith   -     Monday 26 March 2012
David Cameron risks opening a crack in the 
coalition this week when new planning rules are 
published which opponents fear will give 
developers the freedom to build all over the countryside.
Officials at the Department of Communities and 
Local Government have been rewriting the proposed 
National Planning Policy Framework after the 
first draft set off a furious reaction from 
Liberal Democrat MPs with rural seats.
The new guidance, which will be much shorter than 
the old, is expected to be published tomorrow, 
and will ease planning restrictions so that 
developers can contribute to reviving the economy 
and solving the housing shortage. But opponents 
fear they could be allowed to ruin the rural environment.
Martin Horwood, Lib Dem MP for Cheltenham, said: 
"I'm quite concerned about the revised draft. The 
central problem is the obsession with sacrificing 
everything on the altar of economic development. 
Germany has the strongest economic performance in 
Europe and one of the strictest planning frameworks."
Annette Brooke, Lib Dem MP for Mid Dorset, said: 
"It's incredibly important to get the right 
balance between the social, economic and 
environmental effects. The first draft didn't 
strike the right balance. If I see the right 
words around that this time, I'll breath a sigh of relief."
It was reported yesterday the plans will include 
a new community of 100,000 homes on green belt 
land around Coventry and Wolverhampton, near the 
route of the HS2 railway. The Sunday Telegraph 
also reported London was to have a new "second 
Docklands" on the west side of the capital.
The proposed changes have been opposed by 
environmental groups, including the Council to 
Protect Rural England, as being too accommodating 
to developers. The CPRE described the new 
planning framework as the most important of its kind for 30 years.
But a spokesman added: "Some parts of the 
Government, particularly the Treasury and 
Department for Business, wanted to change the 
role of planning to make it a tool for 
facilitating economic growth above all else."

Changes to create 500,000 jobs
Half a million jobs could be created by planning 
reforms allied with state support of the mortgage 
market, according to house builders anxiously 
awaiting news of the Government's plans to 
liberalise regulation of housing development.
The Home Builders Federation says that the 
Government's NewBuy mortgage indemnity scheme 
could be a "game-changer" if the Coalition 
follows through on its pledge to make the 
planning process favour new development – 
securing a boom in jobs as well as providing 
urgently needed new homes. Fewer than 100,000 
began to be built in Britain last year, despite 
official figures indicating an annual rate of 
250,000 is needed in England alone to keep up 
with demand and deliver the 2 million more houses and flats needed by 2020.
The Government has predicted that the reforms 
would create 50,000 new jobs, but Steve Turner of 
the Home Builders Federation said that was a 
"huge underestimation". "If we get up to the 
number of homes required by this country... then 
you're creating in order of [500,000] jobs," he said.
Rob Hastings
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