Shocking to consider removing oversight by councillors and removing the chance for members of the public to have their say at committee meetings. There are often times when a proposal needs serious scrutiny even if it purports to be plan compliant bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Town & Country Planning Association 22/9/24 Guardian: Nimby name-calling will not solve Britain’s housing crisis. The problem is affordability & accessibility not supply. Focus should be on under-occupied & empty homes. Labour risks a developers’ bonanza + continuing crisis. theguardian.com/society/2024/s…

Any commissioner can only work with the budget your government give them. No amount if spin covers up a failed promise, Adam.

Anyone else watching the news right now, and the Chancellor trying to cliam aeroplane are more enviormently friendly these days!!!

BBC coverage on the road to nowhere following my debate: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Government expected 5,500 ha new habitat a year Developers deliver only 609 ha in year one independent.co.uk/climate-change…

"Labour hopes building more houses will lower house prices." Dream on. Labour is relying on private volume developers to deliver most of housing they say should be built. Big developers have no interest in prices falling; they will act to protect £ profits bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Despite all the evidence they are pushing on regardless! It's simple, lend council money to build social housing. Instead of what you are doing, which is making developers richer and driving prices up. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Apart from... there's no strategy (just a call for sites for get-rich-quick developers) and no funding for infrastructure or social housing & you have pulled the financial rug from under a new town in Essex that's in your 'new homes accelerator'!

The government's 'Nature & Development' working paper has been worrying us (we responded) a great deal. Turns out many experts are just as worried. We've pulled together summaries of their submissions here: communityplanningalliance.org/uploads/1/3/9/… CommunityPlanningAlliance 🦇🦎

Only because trump told you to!

Is this how to solve the housing #AffordabilityCrisis ? #BuyToLive Gwynedd house prices plunge as council acts on second homes - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

The Planning & Infrastructure Bill is going to make things even worse for nature Campaign to save wildlife missing target, data shows thetimes.com/article/71d79e…

And 'The economic watchdog also forecast that mortgage rates will increase over the course of Labour's term in office, peaking at an average of 4.7 per cent in 2028 and staying at that rate for the rest of the decade'. That is hardly going to help council waiting lists!

Absolutely horrendous statistic. We lose our farmland and food security at our own peril.

The government wants us to build millions of houses but cut funding to support neighbourhood plans!!!!! Couldn't make up such batshit logic.

Labour meant it when they promised to tear up the planning system. Just didn't mention they would destroy any consecpt of localisation i the process. nalc.gov.uk/resource/nalc-…

The promise of house development with infrastructure was yet another false promise. ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-67960635