Councils will lose powers to prevent development

2011-11-25T00:00:00

Ron Heath (“Planning is built on democracy” Letters November 18) is right to point out the democratic deficit in the Draft National Planning Policy Framework and the Localism Bill but it is potentially even worse than he states in this world of Orwellian “newspeak”.

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