We don’t want the council’s current position, in terms of its local plan, to lead to a loss of ‘control’ over development – we think the council still has good grounds upon which to refuse speculative and unsustainable development and we hope the council will be ‘robust’ in its decision making.

We also want to ensure that although the council is under a lot of pressure at the moment, planning decisions are still made democratically and transparently and have asked the council how they plan to do this. Download the letter below.

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