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Kerslake: UDCs should lose planning powers

Jamie Carpenter, Regen.net, 5 September 2008

The boss of the nascent housing and regeneration super-quango has signalled that planning powers could be handed back to town halls from urban development corporations (UDCs).

In an interview with LGC magazine, Sir Bob Kerslake, chief executive of the Homes and Communities Agency, said: “There is at least a case for exploring whether even some of the existing UDCs should hold their planning powers indefinitely.”

He added: “[The UDC] might have had its time and its place in the Heseltine era, but we’re living in a different world now.”

UDCs have been established in Northamptonshire, east London and the Thames Gateway.

Thurrock Thames Gateway Development Corporation became the first UDC to win strategic planning powers in 2005. West Northamptonshire’s UDC followed in 2006.

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