Later in the session, ministers were urged to reveal which construction and property companies they had met before drawing up their planning policy.

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Defence Infrastructure Organisation, which is responsible for selling off the site on behalf of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), is drawing up a planning application.

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The revised national planning policy framework will guide councils in both drawing up their "local plans", which set out their development policies.

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In April, it walked away from three multi-billion euro missions-in-the-planning, forcing European scientists and engineers to head back to the drawing board after three years of feasibility work.

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Often such projects are kept on the drawing board not by lack of money but by politics and planning.

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In Shanghai alone two new fabs are under construction, another two are on the drawing board, and over a dozen more are in the early planning stages.

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