22nd March 2013, 09:51 AM
Quote:The Telegraph’s Hands Off Our Land campaign persuaded ministers to water down the scale of their initial plans, in the months leading up to the publication of the NPPF in March last year.
Well that seems to have backfired.
Hard to tell what impact this might have without much detail of the changes. I'm not bothered about commercial premises being turned residential, there are plenty of empty shops in most towns. I'm surprised to hear that they have 'pots of money' to give to devolopers and spend on keeping the housing bubble inflated, I thought they were always bleating that Labour spent all the money. The massive subsidies to developers announced in the budget might mean more archaeology as well.