Planning
Sir: I applaud Mr Christopher Booker's attack on the Community Land Act (10 April). His message is that 'positive' town planning has been a djsaster. I think it reasonably follows from all that he says, that the Town and Country Planning Acts should be repealed.
People care, as they have a right to care, how neighbours use their property, especially near their homes. Consequently I would not deny that those Acts perform a necessary function but rather they are an unsuitable instrument for the performance of that function. The most suitable instrument for protecting the environment is not the officialdom which administers the Town and Country Planning Acts but a judicial organisation like the Lands Tribunal—enforcing a law requiring developers to pay compensation for losses caused by their actions.
D. E. Folkes 5 Queen's Walk, Ealing, London W5
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