The Campaign to Protect Rural England has told the Government it must now make substantial changes to its proposed National Planning Policy Framework as the MPs' report had reflected many of its own aspirations for the final policy.
It said the report shows a strong cross-party consensus that planning must treat economic, environmental and social needs equally and not favour short-term growth at any cost.
The Campaign said the Government must now make substantial changes to its proposals to achieve efficient, locally oriented and environmentally sensitive planning.
"We all want to see a return to a healthy economy," said planning officer Kate Houghton.
"The Government will not achieve this by putting the countryside at risk of poor quality development and undermining cities by allowing greenfields to be built on before brownfield land. The Committee's conclusions are considered and well-informed and we urge the Government to respond positively. Otherwise we risk returning to the unsustainable development of a generation ago, when an area of countryside three times the size of Stevenage was built on each year."
It noted that the MPs had attacked the Draft NPPF's unhelpfully vague wording and said that reducing policy to 52 pages had not achieved clarity.
They called the document unbalanced, noted that the presumption in favour of sustainable development would undermine local plans, called for a stronger sustainable development definition and highlighted the inevitability of more sprawl in the absence of brownfield-first policies.
