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The Government's Coalition Programme has been published revealing more of the new Government's plans for localism.
Key measures include: creating a presumption in favour of sustainable development, abolition of the Infrastructure Planning Commission, introducing a simple national planning framework, abolition of the Government Office for London and possibly other offices, and enabling councils to take retail competition issues into account when drawing up their local plans.
There is also new information on two previously announced commitments. Margaret Baddeley, a Senior Associate Director at NLP commented, "Regional Strategies are to be rapidly abolished and this should lead to developers looking for opportunities for schemes which may have been on the back burner because of conflict with regional policy, particularly where schemes have local support. The wider reform of the system may however take longer. The radical reform of the planning system is seen now by Government as a longer term objective, potentially reflecting the scale and complexity of changes that are going to be made."
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