Planning is a key target for newly-elected Labour, seen as vital to enabling the growth their plans depend on, and there is going to be a deal of news on this over the coming weeks.
First up for specific action is the removal of the hurdles unique to onshore wind that the Cameron government put in place in 2015, hurdles that amounted to a de facto ban.
They have done so by amending the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), removing the offending footnotes that created this effective bar.
