Since Mr Pickle’s letter started hitting Council doormats on the 27th May, pre-emptive moves to cut core strategies and abandon the doomed RSS planning process have been seen up and down the country.
We’ll be keeping track of developments and keeping you abreast of the situation throughout - but for now - here are the Council’s who have been quickest off the mark:
East Herts District Council
Cllr Peter Ruffles - “We’ve long needed smaller component parts in planning and better small part liaison and agreement. Playing with big jigsaw puzzle pieces is simplistic. Regional government is remote from the living levels of people... Mr Pickles may have taken an intelligent step towards better local government.”
Cotswolds District Council
Cllr Sue Jepson – “"Local decision-making will be more prominent and local communication and concerns will be listened to. Before we were very restricted because the numbers were set to us by central Government."
Warwick
Cllr John Hammon – “We're extremely relieved that we are not expected to completely ruin and overdevelop our area, because the infrastructure can't take it. Now we have to decide what we can do. We require somethig to keep our district in some sort of order."
- South Oxfordshire, West Oxfordshire and Canterbury have all singalled their approval of the plans previously
- South Oxfordshire have gone as far as removing the core strategy from the Council’s Cabinet agenda.
We’ll be keeping track of developments and keeping you abreast of the situation throughout - but for now - here are the Council’s who have been quickest off the mark:
East Herts District Council
Cllr Peter Ruffles - “We’ve long needed smaller component parts in planning and better small part liaison and agreement. Playing with big jigsaw puzzle pieces is simplistic. Regional government is remote from the living levels of people... Mr Pickles may have taken an intelligent step towards better local government.”
Cotswolds District Council
Cllr Sue Jepson – “"Local decision-making will be more prominent and local communication and concerns will be listened to. Before we were very restricted because the numbers were set to us by central Government."
Warwick
Cllr John Hammon – “We're extremely relieved that we are not expected to completely ruin and overdevelop our area, because the infrastructure can't take it. Now we have to decide what we can do. We require somethig to keep our district in some sort of order."
- South Oxfordshire, West Oxfordshire and Canterbury have all singalled their approval of the plans previously
- South Oxfordshire have gone as far as removing the core strategy from the Council’s Cabinet agenda.
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