Suggestions that a redrawing of council maps would improve the planning system have been trashed by the sector. A planning manifesto by law firm Addleshaw Goddard argues that present local authority boundaries are 'not fit for purpose', and calls for the UK council planning map to be realigned to 'co-ordinate development for metropolitan regions', with just five boroughs in London. But director of policy and research at think-tank, Localis, Steven Howell, told The MJ: 'There is no appetite for a top-down reorganisation of local government at a time when councils are expending all their energy on innovating and changing in response to austerity.'
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