... the council justifies its decision to move the school on the grounds of health and safety: it would be dangerous, it claims, for children to go to classes on the old site while their buildings were being renovated. While dumping the school on a toxic tip is better for the children's health, selling the old site to Walmart will allow US business dynamism to flourish, sweeping away the unamerican economy sustained by Llandudno's scores of small shops. Though Mr Brown may not be aware of Conwy's luminous example, the press conference he held yesterday suggests that we're likely to see rather more entrepreneurship of this kind: Labour, he announced, will change the planning laws to make the approval of major developments "quicker and easier". This means, of course, less time for such old-fashioned activities as public consultation. The government has already proposed that special "orders" should be issued, authorising big ...

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