Extract from Commons motions on Town and Country Planning - Sep 30
Thursday, 1 October 2020 08:26
Matt Western (Warwick and Leamington) (Lab): I rise to oppose these
plans. What have we learned since the war? When we think back to
the new towns developed in Hertfordshire, Essex and elsewhere, and
the great planning that went into them, we realised that we really
did some fantastic stuff. These statutory instruments would remove
the ability of people in Warwick and Leamington and across the
country to have their say in how their neighbourhood is being
developed—we have seen a degree of...Request free trial
(Warwick and Leamington) (Lab): I rise to oppose these
plans. What have we learned since the war? When we think back to
the new towns developed in Hertfordshire, Essex and elsewhere, and
the great planning that went into them, we realised that we really
did some fantastic stuff. These statutory instruments would remove
the ability of people in Warwick and Leamington and across the
country to have their say in how their neighbourhood is being
developed—we have seen a degree of that over the past 10 years—and
instead hand over power to the big housing developers while
communities and councils are emasculated. Shelter, the Local
Government Association, Crisis, the Campaign to Protect
Rural England the Royal Institute of British Architects
and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors are among the
bodies to have expressed serious misgivings about these
changes...
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