Stewart
Jackson is the Member of Parliament for Peterborough and is a Vice President of
the Local Government Association and was an Opposition Spokesman on Regeneration
from 2008-10.
Just before Christmas, Planning Minister Greg Clark MP, published the Government’s response to the DCLG’s Select Committee report on the draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) which, together with evidence he gave the Committee in October and a sustained campaign of misinformation and exaggeration by the likes of the National Trust and the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) and their allies at the Daily Telegraph, has prompted further media speculation of another Government “u-turn” - when it finally responds to further public consultation, now delayed but expected in April.
