Tuesday, 22 May 2012

The grand plan

21/01/2011

The Localism Bill has been criticised as a nimbys’ charter. In the week MPs debate the bill, Lydia Stockdale heads to Kent to ask residents if handing planning decisions to communities will kill development or breathe new life into villages.

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