Chancellor George Osborne's Autumn Statement has offered little to the embattled urban regeneration sector and further upset opponents of his planning reforms, but the Regional Growth Fund will get an extra billion pounds over the life of this Parliament.
Mr Osborne launched his statement as signs of growth in the economy were evaporating.
He also updated the National Infrastructure Plan, although there is little to support sustainable urban development there either.
"Our planning reforms strike the right balance between protecting our countryside while permitting economic development that creates jobs," he said.
"But we need to go further to remove the lengthy delays and high costs of the current system, with new time limits on applications and new responsibilities for statutory consultees."
In practice this will mean a review of the habitats and birds directives -which further enraged conservationists.
But he did announce that statutory bodies will be obliged to promote sustainable development through the consents process once the NPPF is adopted.
Mr Osborne also announced that the 22 enterprise zones already announced would go ahead and would be joined by two more in Humberside and Lancashire.
He extended 100% capital allowances to industries locating in some of the zones and promised to consider extending the North Eastern zone to the Port of Blyth.
The Regional Growth Fund will be increased by £1bn over the next three years to £2.4bn, mitigating some of the loss from regional development agency abolition.
"If we don't get the private sector to take a greater share of economic activity in the regions, then our country will become more and more unbalanced - as it did over the last 10 years," he said.
The National Infrastructure Plan offers little or nothing for urban regeneration.
Its transport component is heavily dominated by inter-urban road spending and some heavy rail projects.
Urban transport spending includes some bus stations, new trams in Sheffield and a bus link to urban sprawl outside Bristol at Ashton Gate.
