>>I get the remain part but planning? I assume that's really about house building, are
>> the LD the party of house building reform?
One might use the NIMBY acronym but building on open land is dead unpopular in these places yet there's an ongoing demand for new houses. Developers find a clutch of 'executive villas' on fields at the edge of towns/villages far more profitable than brownfield sites or (at least before Covid killed the office) inner city re-development.
The current government are advancing plans to ease development restrictions making it more difficult, or even nigh on impossible, for local councils to stop unpopular development. There a a fair number of back bench MP's on the government side with nightmares about how that plays with their electorate.
Today's result is grist to their mill in a campaign to stop, or at least rebalance, the proposals.
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