Josh Mastin-Lee: Labour’s new planning law could take a wrecking ball to local democracy

Josh Mastin-Lee: Labour’s new planning law could take a wrecking ball to local democracy

Cllr Josh Mastin-Lee is a councillor in Barnet. He is the Chief Whip and co-lead for Planning in the Conservative Group. Last year in Hull, Sir Keir Starmer, the unknowing seat warmer for Bonnie Prince Andy, huffed nasally against a “cottage industry of checkers and blockers”. Some of us chuckled with dark irony. There stood the Grand High Priest of HR gospel, grey blur Nannyism, now seeking to demolish what he sneeringly called “barriers to gro…

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