ABSTRACT
Chapters 6, 7 and 8 presented research findings to indicate that the national consistency remit pursued by central government, through the national Planning Policy Guidance Notes, could mitigate against regional and local discretion in planning policy formulation, through the detailed intervention by government regional offices in monitoring draft and deposit local plans and requiring consistency between national and local policies. The focus for these chapters was, predominantly, assessing national impact on local policy-making to the detriment of local planning policy agendas.
