The Future of the Planning System

Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Housing and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:58 pm on 17 July 2019.

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Photo of Julie James Julie James Labour 2:58, 17 July 2019

Yes. I'm delighted to be able to tell the Member that the local authority could already do that. We completely revised 'Planning Policy Wales' to reflect the goals and ways of working set out in the well-being of future generations Act just last December. And if the local authority wants to revise its LDP in the light of that new document, which has placemaking at the heart of the national planning policy, then they, of course, can do so. The whole point of the revision of 'Planning Policy Wales' is for the sort of placemaking that David Rees highlights, and so the local authority is already able to do that if it wishes to revise its plan accordingly.