The government said those targets "didn't work" and its changes were simplifying the planning system.
Responding for Labour, Hilary Benn accused the government of making a "mess" of the planning system.
But he added that many people were increasingly angry at apparent abuses of the planning system by travellers.
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The report makes a number of recommendations, and says investors need to have confidence in the planning system.
But she also pointed a finger at the planning system, which was not providing enough land for houses.
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He suggested the planning system is "strangling developments" and recommended the minister try and free up the blockage.
Well, actually issuing more planning permissions, the same as weakening the planning system, would solve all three of those problems.
His party called for legislation to reform the planning system, change the school term and ban smoking in cars carrying children.
Local firms dominated their regions because they often stood a better chance of gaming the planning system than their national rivals.
"For decades the planning system has not been delivering enough land to meet the housing needs of our population, " he says.
Steve Turner, a spokesman for the Home Builders Federation, says the planning system has been an obstacle for growth for years.
The government wants to put "economic growth at the heart of every planning decision" and make the planning system less complex.
If the planning system took their loss into account, valued it and compensated them for it, their hostility might turn to indifference.
Achieving his aim of establishing hundreds of new schools by 2015 might require reform of the planning system, as well as more money.
Owners Alan Macdonald and Richard Johnstone say the poor state of the housing market and the planning system in Scotland forced the decision.
Ministers intend to pare down the planning system so ministers hold a national debate about policy then hand detailed decisions to an independent planning commission.
He said the planning system should produce homes and jobs, as well as protecting green spaces, but the new plans "may end up doing neither".
Up-to-date statements of government policy, which would normally have involved public consultation, to be in place before major projects are considered in the planning system.
He also called the planning system in Scotland "unpredictable and ponderous" and said there was a need for a system which was faster and more efficient.
This would be true of today's announcement to streamline and simplify the planning system, and to introduce a presumption in favour of supposedly sustainable development into planning decisions.
However, the government also has another way to help deal with the housing problem - changes in the planning system to make it easier to build new houses.
Other demands include government commitments on affordable housing and sustaining balanced and vibrant communities and a review of the planning system to increase the availability of land for homes.
State help will be limited to reforming the lengthy licensing process, streamlining the planning system and levying a charge on nuclear operators to pay for decommissioning and waste storage.
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As MPs debated the legislation at report stage on 17 May 2011, he said there were "problems with the planning system that had grown up over a period of time".
This latest challenge comes against a backdrop of Environment Minister Edwin Poots claiming business people should stop using a "sudden interest in newts and badgers" to snarl up the planning system.
On Thursday, Environment Minister, Edwin Poots told delegates at the Retail NI conference that business people should stop using a "sudden interest in newts and badgers" to snarl up the planning system.
More planning fun, too, in the Lords, where peers will be debating the Government's consultation paper on proposed changes to the planning system and then the impact of Government policy on universities.
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It has worked with the Federation of Small Business to update planning policy to facilitate economic development and further changes to the planning system to promote economic development are currently out to consultation.
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Henry Pryor from HousingExpert.net said the plan could be the most controversial change to the planning system since the War though a "potential solution to the acute housing shortage we have at present".
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