PLANNING

Ex-minister calls for scrapping of quango

A Conservative MP will today call for the Planning Inspectorate to be scrapped to help protect villages from excessive developments.

By Jamie Hailstone | 08 December 2014

A Conservative MP will today call for the Planning Inspectorate to be scrapped to help protect villages from excessive developments.

The Arundel and South Downs MP and former justice minister Nick Herbert has applied to speak in today's second reading of the Infrastructure Bill and will call for the Planning Inspectorate's powers to either be scaled back or scrapped altogether.

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