Suggestions that a redrawing of council maps would improve the planning system have been trashed by the sector.
A planning manifesto by law firm Addleshaw Goddard argues that present local authority boundaries are ‘not fit for purpose’, and calls for the UK council planning map to be realigned to ‘co-ordinate development for metropolitan regions’, with just five boroughs in London.
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