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Witham: MP continues call for changes to traveller planning policy

6:20pm Wednesday 10th August 2011 in News

Witham: MP continues call for changes to traveller planning policy Witham: MP continues call for changes to traveller planning policy

Witham MP Priti Patel has continued to call on ministers make traveller planning policy fairer.

Last Wednesday Ms Patel handed a batch of her constituents letters about the system used to allocate traveller sites to the department for communities and local Government during the last day of a consultation on a new planning policy.

She said: “Communities throughout my constituency and across Essex have faced serious problems with the way the planning process operates against them and ignores their views.

“What is needed is a change in the planning system to ensure that the wishes of local communities are respected and that the system treats everyone equally without given special treatment to certain groups of people.”

Last month Ms Patel hosted a Parliamentary debate on the topic and called for the system to become more balanced.

Comments(2)

Balexan says...
1:48pm Thu 11 Aug 11

“What is needed is a change in the planning system to ensure that the wishes of local communities are respected and that the system treats everyone equally without given special treatment to certain groups of people.”
Thanks Priti, you have just repeated the very thing that the whole country has been asking for years.
Good grief, when she says "my constituency", i have a lot of sympathy for Witham

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The Stinker says...
4:07pm Thu 11 Aug 11

I agree. She has no intention whatsoever of considering or respecting the wishes of local people. That's why she supported the building of all these new houses we're getting in Witham when everyone objected.

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