Or anywhere else in the UK come to mention it! And to make matters worse local planning authorities – in our case Dacorum Borough Council – appear to be completely in thrall to the Housing Secretary?
In The Guardian (17th February 2021) Professor Ros Coward wrote:
“The government’s relentless push for development is destroying rural England”
“The Housing Secretary still wants to impose a controversial American system of zoning, along with a presumption in favour of development. The proposals are scarily anti-democratic. Housing targets will be imposed by central government and local input sidelined. Yet the housing developments championed by Jenrick do nothing to increase the number of affordable homes.”
Dacorum Lib Dem Borough Councillors welcome the article, which illuminates the government’s failing planning policy and the absence of a national voice on the matter. They have written to The Guardian Letters page, to back the call for a campaign to emerge on this matter before it is too late.
our MPs, Sir Mike Penning and Gagan Mohindra, and the Minister
Meanwhile the entire Borough seems set to be blanketted by a decade or more of Planning Blight!
You can read the Prof. Ros Coward article here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/17/development-destroying-rural-england-action