It is the kind of self-interested view of the planning system given by Professor Adam that got us into this mess in the first place. Developers play the system to obtain permissions that they land-bank rather than build-out.

The inanities of the National Planning Policy Framework then allow them to use the lack of five-year housing supply to demand even more permissions, often in places that command higher prices than those that communities have identified for development.

Developers are businesses and they are interested in profit. It is time for a rather obtuse government to understand that this doesn’t deliver either mass housing or specific housing such as bungalows.

There is selective deafness on the part of the Government in respect of the failure of the National Planning Policy Framework. Maybe this is yet another example of why there was selective deafness on the part of the electorate to the wishes of the Government in relation to the referendum.

Jenny Unsworth
Congleton, Cheshire