Housing and Planning
Business of the House
12:38 pm
Eric Pickles (Secretary of State, Communities and Local Government; Brentwood and Ongar, Conservative)
Of course the process will remain balanced. We introduced the presumption in favour of sustainable development so that the balance between the environment, business and heritage could be finely drawn. As somebody who sees planning inspectors’ reports reasonably regularly—a joy that my hon. Friends the new Ministers will now have—I know that they are clearly taking very seriously the mechanism of looking at those three pillars of sustainable development.