UK national Planning policy

Policy documents are sometimes endless pages of small font lettering that may dilutes the big visions it rest upon. they have thousand details that touches on every aspect of the planning enviroment and may reduce its liveliness into endless points to be matched for both reviewers and consultants .This forward by Greg Clark, the newly appointed cities minister in the UK, gives a simple yet highly sophisticated perspective on why planning needs to simplify itself in order to become more in touch with who it serves- the neighborhood and the wider public and then make them his own ambassadors - 

Greg Clark's Foreword to National Planning Policy