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Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

I ask the Secretary of State to look at paragraph 2.12 of ““The Plan for Growth””, which states that where an authority does not have a development plan or where such a plan is not up to date, there will be a presumption that an application ““will be accepted””. That sentence does not mention sustainability, but just that such applications will be accepted. Does that mean that where there is an up-to-date plan, a developer will have less chance of getting an application through than in an authority without a current local development framework that is still operating on a unitary development plan? In other words, will there be a two-tier and differential planning system in this country, which we have never had before?