You have no authority here: Should planning decisions be left to local councillors?

摘要

The Planning & Environment Committee meeting at Handforth Parish Council in Cheshire that madeit on to national news last week was entertaining but, along with the meeting of Shaftesbury TownCouncil in Dorset that made the news for similar reasons last year, pulled back a curtain on the hyperlocalpolitics that inform planning decisions in all corners of our country.