Decentralisation Minister Greg Clarke has announced The Localism Bill will contain a statutory obligation for councils to cooperate across area boundaries.
In a keynote speech to yesterday’s RTPI Conference, Clark said he was "passionately in favour of localism and passionately in favour of development."
He emphasised points made in Eric Pickles' letter to Councils last month, stating the importance of ensuring that Regional Spatial Strategies were "cast aside and they won’t come back."
However, he said that a shift away from regionalism wouldn’t see the end of cooperation between councils. The Localism Bill will contain an "obligation on authorities to cooperate on those parts of their policies which cross borders and boundaries and in a way that cross boundaries that were perhaps not recognised in the regional system."
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