A better brighter Britain but not for watching brief conditions

[gwyl]

So it might be just a NIMBYist charter rather than an opportunity for unbridled development.

my fear is that there is more likely to be - as you point out a NIMBYist effect - or if you will a pocket borough effect, with a little bit of back-scratching thrown in for good measure
it's a charter for corrupt individuals to do what they like; as pointed out above these neighbourhood groups are unaccountable, whereas LPAs are; stuff your chums into such a group with the tacit agreement that when you get yours, they'll get theirs; if anyone were to complain, then they won't get anything ever, and to whom will they have effective redress? without access to legal aid they don't stand a chance.
sorry, i see this as furthering a return to the 18th C, which seems to characterise much of this government's policies
that said, we could have a Tory U-turn on this, too, if we can raise consciousness beyond the profession. but who is going to be interested in protecting a few archaeologists' jobs