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Putting the con into consultation

WE WERE delighted to host a Claim the Future event earlier this month with John McDonnell, looking at issues that affect our borough.  I chose to speak on a subject I’m all too familiar with, which affects everyone’s daily lives, which can utterly destroy or joyfully re-energise communities, but which immediately sends people off to sleep: the planning system.  Bear with me.  For every campaign to save homes, save public parks, save nurseries, libraries, trees and bees, there is more than likely a highly questionable and humungous planning application behind it.  I’ve joined countless protests over the years, chained myself to gates and trees, helped declare a republic to save a housing estate, supported motions to council, met verminous property developers, leafleted, postered, pleaded, begged, petitioned, and even raised my voice a little … but against the juggernaut will of the council, backed up by armies of venal developers and troops of slippery consultants, we

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