Reasons to be cheerful?

This article appeared in the December issue of Town and Country Planning

Emma Vandore reports on the TCPA’s Annual Conference, ‘Plan and
Deliver?’, held on 30 November at One Whitehall Place, London

He told the sceptics to stop looking so ‘glum’.
Addressing the TCPA’s Annual Conference,
Decentralisation Minister Greg Clark told the
audience that the Government’s proposed planning
reforms aren’t about enabling the Home Counties to
block development in their backyard. Community
planning, he said, is about transforming the planning
profession from one of ‘development control
officers’ into enablers of community dreams.
It was a sort of British version of ‘Yes, we can!’

To read the article, check it out in the Dec issue here.