Tories: to fill the countryside with ‘new homes’ Councils removed from process by Government.

 

Mark Spencer, the farming minister, said this move to adopt Clarksons clause by the current Government will reduce "needless bureaucracy" of councils dragging out decision making on house building in rural areas. “Our decision will help provide farmers with the freedom to decide the best uses for their land”. The reforms also allow farmers to convert a building into up to 10 homes, without the need of planning permission from their local council, which is double the previous limit leading to thousands of new homes being developed without planning permission in the heart of the Countryside.

A number of Tory local authorities who have brought in local plans designed specifically to deny the development of homes in the countryside are having to scramble about and adjust those local plans which took years to develop to get their long hoped for ruralitus of bureaucratic shields to deny available homes. It’s predicted that there will be tears dripping into the glasses at the nations lodges tonight and well into the future as farmers have now gained Carte Blanche to stick fingers up to their Councillors who enjoyed watching them struggle previously.

The Tory Government has now taken away the Conserve from Conservatives and is allowing young people brought up in the countryside to now be hopeful of being able to bring up their kids up in a similar environment.

In Northumberland where the resolution of planning decisions is at an all time low as the administration crumbles under the weight of not being able to fulfill its local plan promises Conservative County Councillors have to face the wrath of parish councils who brought out neighbourhood plans to protect middle England from development and we here at murky can almost feel the animosity between Parishes and the County as costs will have to be born again locally as the Tories outmanoeuvre Conservative councils.