Assumption of planning approval on "brown" better than building on "green?"

[daltontrees]

I suspect the intent of the 'strategic politician' will be eroded, choked and extinguished by the lethargy and stifling inertia of local government "tactical civil servant' in any case....

 

...and that's probaly a good thing, this latest policy is sound-bitey and will hit a lot of buffers as it tries to thrust aside decades of proof that it's not such a great idea. There's always been a sequential preference for brownfield land and many Councils already have that written into their Development Plans, which creates a presumption in favour of consent. But the devil's always in the detail, there should never be such a thing as an unconditional automatic consent and as such hopefully there will still be a place for localism and appropriate conditions.

 

Every government that comes along thinks it has found a genius solution to an eternal problem, a solution no-one else saw. They're rarely magic wands, history is littered with their tarnished wreckage.