Prime minister David Cameron has addressed civil servants at DCLG and told them Government plans will mean a total change in the way the country is run.
He made his address in Eland House to mark the launch of the Department's Structural Reform Plan which gathers together its plans for change. He said it would mark a change from closed systems to open markets, from bureaucracy to democracy, from big government to big society and from politician power to people power.
Decentralisation minister Greg Clark said the 45-point Plan would force the Department to shift gear from ruling by central diktat.
The Plan sets out how the Department intends to implement its policies.
"We won't be micromanaging, second guessing, and interfering in your affairs any more," he promised.
DCLG said ministers have already begun to remove swathes of centralising and red tape policies by ending regional strategies, putting housing back into local hands, ending unwanted garden grabbing and abolishing home information packs and a burdensome council inspection regime.
Mr Clark told a Local Government Association conference in Bournemouth that regional government is a symptom of the old mentality. But he hinted there is space for democratic decision making that is larger than local but smaller than national.
"It's just nothing like the model imposed upon us by the previous administration," he said.
"What, after all, can you say about a system that groups Kent with Oxfordshire and the Isle of Wight, but divides the highly strategic Thames Estuary between three different regions?"
