Fresh laws to block ugly new homes have been promised as ministers reverse plans to limit the power of local residents to veto development.
The new housing secretary Michael Gove is understood to have ordered a complete rethink of the planning reforms and has ruled out proposals to limit the power of local planning committees to block housebuilding.
Speaking at a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference, Gove said: “Beauty doesn’t mean that every house has to be built in a Georgian style, but there are various human principles about how streets have developed which have been neglected, and alienating.”
Gove is also said to want to make housing companies pay more to local communities to improve amenities in areas where development takes place.
