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A Lancashire MP has urged the Government to reassure residents in part of the county that rural areas will not be hit with a stampede of planning applications.
With no Local Plan – a key document setting out housing priorities for the future – yet in place in Fylde, residents and parish councils in rural areas have contacted the area’s MP Mark Menzies to express concern that developers could target rural, countryside areas for house building.
And he has now asked planning minister Greg Clark to promise residents that they would not be unduly affected as they wait for Fylde’s local plan to be drawn up.
Mr Menzies said in a Department for Communities and Local Government meeting: “Given that the Fylde Borough Council local plan will not come into force for some time, what assurances can my right honourable friend give me and my constituents that we will not see a stampede of planning applications in the meantime?”
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