"We will shortly launch a major campaign to dismiss planning myths, like the myth that planning is a drag on economic growth, that it fails to address climate change, that it allows the countryside to be concreted over and that it is weighted in favour of saying ‘no’ to every planning application. You know and I know that these myths are simply not true"
Unfortunately for the President one of those myths isn't a myth at all - planning does act as a drag on economic growth. It might be desirable to exercise some control over development but that acts simply to add costs to the development process - ergo less productivity and less growth.
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1 comment:
Hmmm...
There's two ways to look at your uninformed viewpoint.
(1) how much investment would happen if no-one knew what else might happen to harm that investment?
(2) why is it that countries with a strong planning system (like, say, China) are generally growing faster than those without (like, say, Greece, Ireland and the US)?
:¬) With_Permission
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