The BBC reports that the government will today reveal its new planning framework which it says will help stimulate economic growth and provide much needed new homes but critics fear the new rules will favour development.
The Today programme's Sanchia Berg spoke to a protestor and the developer of one project in Yorkshire that took nine years to work it's way through the process.
Greg Clark, Minister of State at the Department for Communities and Local Government, told the Today programme's Evan Davis that the word "sustainable" means that there is a test as to whether an application is in the public interest.
He said that if it destroys a green belt, or the environment "it would not be sustainable and so should not go ahead".
He went on to say that "policy makers have a responsibility" to bring out the harmony of the need to balance employment with a need for housing.
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