Tory plans for planning

I have just been through the "Open Source Planning" green paper published yesterday by the Conservatives. If any reader would like me to send them our "quick and dirty" summary please e mail me, but the headlines seem to be; the end of regional planning with "local communities" having much more say; a curtailing of the right of appeal - but the addition of the right of third parties to appeal against the grant of permission; the introduction of a presumption in favour of sustainable development; the apparent demise of "material considerations"; the ability for developers to "compensate" local people so as to avoid opposition to their schemes; IPC to be scrapped in favour of a similar process within PINS with the Secretary of State taking decisions; CIL to be scrapped in favour of a local tariff doing the same thing;"flexible zoning" and other ideas for extending permitted development rights (including a right to change the use of any building to an educational use) and the  Human Rights Act to be scrapped and replaced by a British Bill of Rights