Why planning makes ministers uneasy
The Coalition's planning proposals are causing anxiety inside Government, in two ways. First, some ministers are uneasy at the way the leadership seem determined to take on Tory voters in the shires....
View ArticleThe horrors hidden in the draft National Planning Policy Framework
Just when you think it can’t possibly get any worse, it does. Day after day for the past two and a half weeks, this newspaper has been publishing devastating revelations about the Government’s...
View ArticleConservative Party Conference: There's no room for the ordinary party member...
Big business interests and lobbyists are again turning the Tories into an elitist organisation It was not quite the most boring Conservative conference in the party’s history, as one columnist stated,...
View ArticleDoes Britain really want more garden cities?
David Cameron seems to think so. Or at least, he wants to "apply the principles of garden cities to areas with high potential growth". He said so in his speech today, which I've sketched for today's...
View ArticleTelegraph readers fend off the Treasury to save the countryside
It’s time to heave a huge sigh of relief. After a bloody Whitehall battle – spurred by a seven-month Daily Telegraph campaign – the Government has beaten a remarkable retreat from its attempt to...
View ArticleBob Neill's demotion to the backbenches is a sad loss
That ominous rumbling you can hear is the Treasury tanks being rolled onto the lawn in front of Eric Pickles's Department for Communities and Local Government over the vexed issue of planning. Many of...
View ArticleBring on the bulldozers, says Nick Boles. But it won't be that easy
No retreat, no surrender. Having made himself the latest hate figure for Middle England with his demand that we concrete over an area of the countryside twice the size of Greater London, planning...
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