Closed petition Scrap the Governments proposals for Planning Reforms with "a presumption in favour of sustainable growth"

Closed on 7 September 2012

This entire proposal needs to be completely scrapped.

The government’s proposals are little more than a charter to turn the whole of the UK into a vast concrete island of endless Urban sprawl and Inner City Slums and will fail for exactly the same reasons that building new roads always fail to relieve traffic congestion – such roads only create far more traffic and simply increase traffic congestion. Similarly, creating more “affordable” (cheap and nasty) housing is more stupid, self-defeating short-termism from politicians who lack the genuine political will to deal with the over-population crisis at its very roots so cynically seek to merely manage the symptoms instead by giving a “presumption” in favour of unnecessary development.