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Mayor blasts commission
Planning, 8 June 2007
The government must make a better case for an unelected independent planning commission, London mayor Ken Livingstone said this week.
A spokeswoman for Livingstone said: "Given his planning responsibilities and the fact that he is democratically elected, these decisions should sit with the mayor."
The commission, mooted in the planning white paper, will handle major infrastructure projects. But the Greater London Authority Bill now before parliament suggests that the mayor will decide all "strategic" applications.
Westminster City Council leader Simon Milton warned this week that London's planning system will get bogged down in bureaucracy if the mayor wins such powers.
Speaking to the Architecture Foundation and Debate London, he said the mayor takes six months on average to make planning decisions.
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