I’m not in the business of advising NIMBY local, authorities but I will point out fatal flaws in the Planning White Paper.
The White Paper proposes to abolish the DTC and the forward looking 5YHLSS. It also proposes no formal requirement to examine alternative realistic plan options (as required by the SEA directive). It leaps directly from a call for proposals to a submission plan. New plans have to be in place within 30 months. The assumption being presumably no need as growth areas will be in place.
So what if you are the kind of authority like Wokingham or East Devon that wants to build far less. Easy just produce a sloppy, stupid, back of the envelope plan showing houjsing in the worst possible places. You will get masses of objections and the plan will fail at examination. Job done.
Thank you Planning White Paper for messing up zoning reform and incentivising the one thing we have too much of: bad plans.
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions 
Isn’t the risk then that, absent of a plan, applications will have a presumption in favour as the local authority can’t show how they are meeting the new, binding, housing number from central government? That, coupled with subsequent failing of the Housing Delivery Test means it’d be a free-for-all.
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