Getting the economy in a Pickles?

[Paul Mobbs]

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See http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/planningandbuilding/2238689

Eric Pickles' latest idea for the Conservative economic renaissance -- 
removing the ability of the public to complain or act and allowing 
corporations to circumvent local controls/legal agreements:

# Giving the green light to "new gas infrastructure"... I think we know 
what that fracking means! ;-)

# Overturning section 106 agreements that seek to recompense communities 
for the impacts of development (e.g, by getting developers to pay for 
schools, community facilities, etc. when building lots of new houses)

# Preventing red tape in the "digital divide" -- i.e. preventing people 
complaining about the erection of more radio masts for 4G and wireless 
Internet in rural areas.

# Preventing people registering land as village greens in order to stop 
development.

# "Speeding up the planning system for large scale business and commercial 
projects" -- i.e. allowing large companies to jump over local authority 
control/local accountability by getting their applications passed through 
central government/infrastructure commission.


There's an apocraphal statement attributed to Mussolini that "fascism is 
the merger of state and corporate power".... well, what do you think?

:-(


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