I appreciate that the Minister is saying that two thirds of council decisions are upheld, but is he aware that sometimes the Planning Inspectorate is used as bogeyman or fairy-tale villain by large-unit developers or town planners, and the effect is, “Come on councillors, be good children, hurry up with your local plan, put in large sections of greenbelt development; otherwise the Planning Inspectorate will get you”? Wittingly or unwittingly, the Planning Inspectorate is being abused in this way.
Infrastructure Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Rebecca Harris
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 26 January 2015.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Infrastructure Bill [Lords].
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