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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS National Trust warns over planning reform 'quick fix'  Proposed changes to the law on contaminated land and planning that will make development work easier have come in for stinging criticism from the National Trust. Reforms that allow for short-term "free-for-alls" will lead to trouble later on, argued Dame Fiona Reynolds, director general of the charity. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, she noted that failing eurozone countries - Greece, Ireland and Italy - all share a reputation for lax planning laws that allow unfettered development. "The empty homes that blight the Irish countryside stand as icons of a discredited approach to growth and development, which ignores the needs of people and places in the pursuit of short-term profit," she wrote. Dame Fiona is meeting the prime minister in Downing Street today (November 15th) to discuss proposed planning reforms. In its response to the draft National Planning Policy Framework published last month, the National Trust said it welcomed the "intentions" of the legislation, but said the current document would not meet those aims. Posted by Alex McLean 
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