The House of Lords Select Committee on National Policy for the Built Environment has also published a transcript from an evidence session on Thursday 16 July 2015.
The session heard evidence from the Head of Heritage at DCMS, Gill Graham, the Director of Planning at DCLG, Ruth Stainer, the Chief Planner at DCLG, Steve Quartermain, and Bob Ledsome, Deputy Director for Building Regulations and Standards, DCLG.
Questions in the evidence session included: how the government is taking forward the recommendations of the Farrell Review, how the government intends to take forward its new proposals for prioritising the development of brownfield land, what effect will new proposals to allow additional stories to be added in London without planning permission, whether England should have a spatial plan, and the benefits of moving the responsibility for architecture and design from DCMS to DCLG.
For this Select Committee on National Policy for the Built Environment see the website
