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MPs offered more say on planning

Tamar Wilner, Regeneration & Renewal, 6 June 2008

Planning minister John Healey has attempted to stem a rebellion over the planning bill by offering to make ministers more accountable to MPs when deciding planning policy for major infrastructure projects.

As Regeneration & Renewal went to press, 63 rebel Labour MPs had signed an early-day motion attacking the bill's proposal to set up an infrastructure planning commission (IPC) to decide...

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