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The Campaign for Better Transport has raised concerns that the planning system is allowing councils to backtrack on agreed packages of transport measures because there are no checks in place to ensure their delivery.
At present, councils have the ability to sign off their own work and the transport organisation is concerned that many are doing so before projects or elements of transport projects are implemented. The example given is of a new road being completed, but accompanying sustainable transport measures being cancelled or delayed without consequence. There are no known cases where enforcement action has been taken.
Chris Todd, from Campaign for Better Transport, said: “This is a problem; councils are effectively being allowed to mark their own homework. The system needs to change so that they can no longer sign off their own schemes and are held to account for their failings. Norfolk County Council is the latest council to renege on a legal order to implement sustainable transport measures originally agreed as part of its planning approval, but it is not the first and certainly won’t be the last unless this enforcement loophole in the planning system is closed.”
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