Mr. Robin Mandal:

This comes to the core of what is wrong with planning. Until section 28(1C) is revoked, development plans mean nothing. Of the current strategy housing development, SHD, process - which will become the large scale residential development, LSRD - 126 are material contraventions. Many members have been councillors and know how hard it is to get a material contravention through. This can be done by the stroke of a pen. That is what is causing the alienation. Until that goes, we will still have numerous objections. Again, to put the judicial review in context, the number of apartments and homes under the SHD process that are under judicial review, as of yesterday, was 7,535. That number is marginally less than what is actually on-site. It is a small proportion and it is blown out of proportion. We need plan-led development to build communities. We cannot do it until the section 28(1C) goes. Then we get back to getting proper, decent guidance and not directives.