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Response to inaccurate claims that planning reforms will lead to more unauthorised Traveller sites

Bob Neill responds to inaccurate claims that planning reforms will lead to more unauthorised traveller sites. Bob Neill, Minister for Local바카라 사이트¦

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Bob Neill responds to inaccurate claims that planning reforms will lead to more unauthorised traveller sites.

Bob Neill, Minister for Local 바카라 사이트, said:

Top-down targets for traveller sites undermined local discretion and turned a blind eye to unauthorised development, harming community cohesion. The Coalition 바카라 사이트 is scrapping the previous 바카라 사이트바카라 사이트™s planning rules on traveller sites and issuing explicit new planning guidance which increases protection of the Green Belt and open countryside. Stronger weight is being given to protection of local amenity and the local environment. And through the Localism Bill, councils are being given tougher enforcement powers to tackle the abuse of the system.

Bob Neill MP

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Published 21 September 2011