"SOVIET STYLE DIKTAT" FROM GOVERNMENT ADVISERS, THE TCPA

NATIONAL EMERGENCY ON CLIMATE, HOUSING. ALL BRITISH PLANNING TO BE BYPASSED.
LAND GRAB TO FUND ECO-FEATURES

BUT THERE WILL BE LOCAL PUBLIC ENQUIRIES

In a statement the Town and Country Planning association has advised that

• "national interest" dictates emergency response to climate change and housing shortage
• current plan led system is too slow
• New Towns Act may be used
• planning system must adapt to eco-towns, wherever they are imposed
• use land value windfall from bypassing the planning process to fund more sustainable towns
• public local enquiries
• must be exemplary developments
• community involvement in development and management
• eco-towns research programme to inform future developments