Should Local Authorities Be Given Powers To Scrap Rdas?

摘要

The regional assemblies were unpopular but at least they had a democratic mandate. The RDAs are the least elected of anybody.rnThe Conservatives would give power to local authorities to work together and put something in place for regional projects - subject to approval from the secretary of state who, if we are elected, would be Ken Clarke. Projects currently being driven by the RDAs would be unaffected.rnThe government has set up the system so that local people feel it's against them. We think that coming up with a target like 3 million homes by 2020 is nonsense. We'd scrap all that top-down stuff, which clearly hasn't worked. The East of England regional spatial strategy, for example, has been in judicial review for the best part of a year - we think that's mad.