Examination of Witnesses

Part of Growth and Infrastructure Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 12:00 pm on 13 November 2012.

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Ruth Reed: The RIBA is concerned about the impact on the presumption that we will have local consultation in with planning, and that there will be community buy-in and acceptance of proposals. We are a strong supporter of the NPPF, as well as of the Localism Act 2011, on the basis that it sets out to engage communities. We are concerned that non-performance may be due to obstructiveness, but it could be due to lack of resources. In fact, if you look at the underperforming authorities in the evidence from the House of Commons Library you can see that some are clearly suffering from lack of resources, rather than from a desire to be obstructive because of rejection of development within their boundaries.