Call this planning reform? It's a recipe for civil war | Simon Jenkins

Eric Pickles's document speaks of ministers lost to lobbyists. Neighbourhood forums won't stop England becoming uglier

The government's great planning reform has veered way off course, and needs steering back to sanity. It responds to no national calamity, and there is no public gain to the reform itself. An updating of the system in the local government department was hijacked by a group of "practitioners", mostly builders and developers, and slid into print.

I cannot blame the developers...