article_snippet: The countryside is under siege from housing developers exploiting the Government’s relaxed planning laws, campaigners have warned.
article_snippet: the Government’s National Planning Policy Framework, which aimed to speed up decisions and boost house building, introduced three years ago, ordered planning boards to shift the ‘presumption’ of planning boards decisions ‘in favour’ of development.
article_snippet: planning boards has repeatedly said that there were sufficient regulations in place to protect rural Britain from inappropriate developments.
article_snippet: Campaigners balme the increase is a direct result of the Government’s National Planning Policy Framework, which aimed to speed up decisions and boost house building .
article_snippet: But a Daily Mail investigation revealed last year that speculators are so confident speculators can exploit new loopholes, speculators offer farmers ‘no-win-no-fee’ deals to get planning permission.
article_snippet: The disdain with which some developers treat green belt land was revealed at the National Planning Summit in London this week.
article_snippet: Mark Sitch, senior partner at planning consultancy Barton Willmore, told the conference that planning restrictions on rural land should be dismantled.
article_snippet: But campaigners say there is no need to concrete over the countryside to meet that aim.
article_snippet: Planning minister Brandon Lewis last night defended the Government’s record.
highlights_snippet: Government framework asks planners to look favourably on develpoment .