New legislation, proposed in the Queen’s Speech on Tuesday, which would allow residents to vote on whether their neighbours get planning permission has been described as “utter madness” by the chairman of an influential committee of MPs.
The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill would allow communities in England to hold referendums over the style and size of extensions, new homes, and conversions on their street, but Huw Merriman, chair of the Transport Committee, wrote on Twitter on May 11: “Utter madness. What’s next ‘I veto the colour of your front door or your car on the drive’?”
He added: “The aspirational party I joined under [former Prime Minister Margaret] Thatcher didn’t hold a poll, or deny hard-working people the chance to improve their homes, based on neighbour envy.”
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