Labour unveils review of planning system

By David Blackman2018-09-24T13:30:00

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Party promises rethink of current system with results due next year

Labour has the appeals system in its sights as it embarks on its new review to restore people power in planning.

The party’s “root and branch rethink” of the planning system was officially launched at the party conference in Liverpool last night (Sunday).

Roberta Blackman-Woods, the party’s planning spokesperson, told the launch event at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool that the exercise aims to deliver a “system of local plan making that is genuinely democratic’’.

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