Griff Rhys Jones ‘The Government Panicked’ over #NPPF

In this weeks Radio times

‘The Government panicked. The planning regulations were torn up. Our sense of priorities warped before our very eyes.’

‘It is not elitist to care about the countryside. It is not old-fashioned. It is not the preserve of old-age pensioners, or out-of-touch aesthetes, or little Englanders, or sentimentalists, or soppy nature worshippers or selfish nimbyists to require that this balance endures, and that our government ensures that it does.’