The Government’s planning reform has come in for criticism as it attempts to strike a balance between economic growth and localism. Will the new National Planning Policy Framework do the job? Hogan Lovells’ Michael Gallimore and Harry Spurr report

“Communities should be given the greatest possible opportunity to have their say and the greatest possible degree of local control.” So said the Conservative Party in its policy Green Paper, Open Source Planning, published before the last election. “Restoring democratic and local control” has always been at the heart of the party’s proposals for planning reform and sits at the centre of the localist agenda.

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