Rayner Could Be Forced to Undertake Training in Housing and Planning

Labour’s red tape expansion continues with the government’s attempt in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill to force all councillors to undertake mandatory training if they serve on planning committees. But who is the highest force in the land on planning? Rayner herself, and as she often boasts, she left school without much training…

Now a neat amendment from Lord Fuller would require Labour’s big wigs at Westminster to go through the same training they are trying to impose on everyone else: “this amendment would require civil servants and Ministers of the Crown to complete equivalent training to that required for local planning authorities and mayoral authorities”.[…] Read the rest