I suggest the driver here is that the Council will already in all likelihood already own the land. (View Post)

At the moment my Council are targetting urban green spaces for Council Housing. They've done 100+, and they are promising another 400. They have form on this; a sports centre was built on the La… (View Post)

Abolition of Planning (incl. officers) would give us gin palaces all over the national talks. "Money talks" needs a bridle, which is what the planning system is for - and we like it being c… (View Post)

That's reason number 27 why I couldn't vote for the Greens at national level, unless I was sure there was no chance of them having any significant influence, but I would be happy to do so a… (View Post)

(Something borked in the quotes. This may not all be Bart.) Labour Manifesto: 300 planning officers is like the 6600 (?) extra teachers. If that is England it is about 2/3 of a planning officer per l… (View Post)