A domesday for development
Jan 20, 2021
3 minutes
Simon Jenkins
YOU might think the British Government had better things to do right now than ‘build a whole new planning system from the ground up.’ Yet this bull, loosed in the china shop last August, is still smashing common sense. Last month, the Government’s Local Government Secretary, Robert Jenrick, had to abandon one of his wilder proposals on housing. He has yet to abandon the rest.
His most spectacular U-turn was on a plan to cut house building in
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