This would appear to be a developer’s blank cheque. No need to build affordable housing, quality housing, sustainable housing, or take care over flooding, environmental concerns, local housing need, infrastructure. Purely greed over need.

Planning has to be local and democratic. I agree entirely with the Charter.

at the moment feeling quite impotent against masses of paperwork, a planning system that rolls on despite covid, and the inability of people to engage fully in the planning process, short time notifications for submission of objections, obvious misleading brochures and descriptions given in planning applications, the right to appeal against a refusal where decisions are take by Ministers who know little of planning, building and generally have little HEART…. other than their own self interest that is.