Government willing to negotiate on planning reforms

摘要

Government officials are willing to negotiate concessions to planning reforms in order to placate opponents of the introduction of a planned presumption in favour of sustainable development, Building understands. The admission comes as the battle between the government and an increasingly organised group of anti-development and conservation campaigners over the proposed National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) intensified this week. The NPPF proposes that a "presumption in favour of sustainable development" occurs on all applications where the relevant council's local plan is out of date or non-specific.