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"The fact is [regional strategies] had become a positive obstacle to good planning in this country and to the delivery of housing in the right place." Bob Neill, 30 June.

Communities secretary Eric Pickles is plainly enjoying the Government's "golden 100 days" by slashing and burning with gusto

Since taking office, the new Government has indicated its determination to carry out a radical overhaul of the planning system in line with the Open Source Planning green paper

When David Cameron promised "the greenest government ever", most thought he meant the most sustainable, but it's starting to look as if he meant green in its other sense - naïve

"There will be cuts, but they are concentrated in those parts of the country where they are least needed." Vince Cable

Environmental regulations for disposal, recycling and treatment of excavated construction soils have changed with the new Environmental Permitting Regulations 2010

As fortune tellers and seers try to divine the new Government's intentions, one area of particular mystery surrounds its attitude to brownfield policy and regeneration