Pickles thinks he can Press #NPPF on Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Extraordinary answer in commons yesterday – Greg Clark always immediately answers to such questions that planning is a devolved matter.  So is his policy to push via officers similar reforms on the devolved nations?  One wonders what Alex Salmond and Jim McKinnon think of this?

David Simpson (Upper Bann) (DUP): What discussions have taken place with the regional assemblies about the new planning proposals?

Mr Pickles: We have engaged in a number of discussions with the assemblies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. They have been very constructive, especially at officer level, but it is still up to individual constituent parts of the United Kingdom to decide whether to implement the proposals.