That the Cabinet resolved to ask the Leader of the Council to write to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government calling for the Government to scrap its Planning White Paper and instead

·         Undertake a wholesale review of Permitted Development Rights;

·         Make the Bristol-based Planning Inspectorate more accountable to local people; and

·         Implement stronger controls to ensure Ministers making decisions on planning applications are not connected either financially or personally with the developers or related parties to the application.