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United Kingdom: Who will David Cameron listen to on building in the countryside?
Posted by Telegraph: Isabel Hardman on January 9th, 2014
Telegraph: A Conservative MP complaining about the Government's planning reforms is hardly as rare as hen's teeth these days. Grumbles about what many MPs fear is a free-for-all that favours developers form a low-level backing track to Tory party life. But it was still remarkable when Nadhim Zahawi, the MP for Stratford-upon-Avon, decided to attack the National Planning Policy Framework this week. Mr Zahawi was simply repeating what many colleagues feel when he said the reforms were causing "physical harm'...
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United Kingdom: Fracking faces a little local difficulty
Posted by Telegraph: Isabel Hardman on August 21st, 2013
Telegraph: The Balcombe protest may be annoying but it has also been pretty effective. The brouhaha over Cuadrilla's attempts to explore local oil deposits has included celebrities, guitars, bongos, compost toilets and a vegan snack bar. It even involved the arrest of the Green MP, Caroline Lucas. It has shattered the tranquillity of the pretty Sussex village -- and raised concerns about fracking. But no matter how much noise these visiting activists make, they aren't the ones who could really wreck the Government's...