IHBC@COP26 conservation & community signpost: Gove ‘welcomes’ idea of maintaining residents’ say in planning applications

The housing secretary Michael Gove has told the House of Commons that he ‘welcomed’ the idea of maintaining residents’ ability to comment on and influence individual planning applications, signalling a change of approach from a key proposal in the planning white paper.

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Housing secretary Michael Gove is on the Hansard record that he ‘entirely agreed’ with the representation from Clive Betts MP ‘that local plans need to be at the heart of a plan-led system, indicating where development is likely to happen’.

… community involvement in the planning process….with limited public say on individual planning applications…

Planning Resource writes:

[Gove’s] comments refer to proposals in last summer’s planning white paper that would see community involvement in the planning process front-loaded onto the local plan-making process and the development management process streamlined, with limited public say on individual planning applications.

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