The Conservatives have reiterated their promise to abolish regional planning, including regional spatial strategies, but say a Conservative government would instead pay councils to release land for housing by matching pound-for-pound the council tax receipts they receive from new housing.
The proposals come in Modern Conservatism: Our Quality of Life Agenda launched during the campaign.
It covers a wide range of issues but it is a very pale shadow of John Gummer's 2007 quality of life commission document which promoted a wide range of radical Smart Growth policies.
"If we win that election next week there will come the most radical redistribution of power this country has ever seen, from political elites to the man and woman on the street," said David Cameron at the document's launch.
Part of that reiterates the Party's commitment to "open source planning" which would involve local people creating neighbourhood plans which would be incorporated into local plans which could not then be amended by inspectors.
The use classes order would be amended to allow buildings to be used for any purpose permitted in the local plans and planning authorities would be required to co-operate with one another and would be encouraged to compile infrastructure plans.
The document also contains a commitment to "allow neighbourhoods to stop the practice of ‘garden grabbing'" which opposition parties have used as an attack on brownfield policies.
The Party says it would promote green spaces and wildlife corridors but only says it would "maintain" national green belt protection, AONBs, national parks, SSSIs and other environmental designations to protect landscapes, preserve wildlife and "stop unsustainable urban sprawl".
"Today, we announce another major new proposal to take this a step further," said Mr Cameron.
"Giving neighbourhoods the power to create new parks and playgrounds, with access to money from local developments and more control over the planning system."
