The independent commentary on British political affairs.
The independent commentary on British political affairs.
May 2008
Vol. 11, No. 11
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The British planning system has two interesting and related characteristics: it is a belief-based policy, rather than an evidence-based one, and it is the last survivor of the wave of idealistic post-warpolicies still flying the banner of central planning.
Then along comes Kate Barker with her gentle but persistent probing, analysis and evidence. The CPRE crowd have been crying out ‘stop concreting over England’ since the 1920s. In fact, as Barker shows, far from having …
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