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Public to lose voice in major planning rows

'Independent' UK newspaper | 17.06.2001 15:13

Ministers are urgently drawing up plans to prevent opposition through public inquiries to the building of nuclear dumps and power stations, motorways, airports and other controversial developments.

Ministers are urgently drawing up plans to prevent opposition through public inquiries to the building of nuclear dumps and power stations, motorways, airports and other controversial developments.

The plans, which could allow ministers to give the green light to hotly contested projects virtually by decree, pose the greatest threat to democracy in planning since the system was set up by a Labour government half a century ago.

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And so people are even further alienated from the democratic process... the process continues...

'Independent' UK newspaper
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