From Spencer Drury, PPC for Greenwich & Woolwich

As Gordon Brown’s controversial planning quango, the Infrastructure Planning Commission, opens its doors this month, Colin Bloom, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Erith & Thamesmead, has warned it will fuel public disillusionment with politics. It could mean that even more unwanted developments like the Belvedere Incinerator, Belmarsh Prison and the Crossness Sewage Works could be dumped onto the area as a result.