Today’s Telegraph reports that Conservative MPs are to fight against moves to relax planning rules to allow homeowners to extend their homes as much as 20ft without planning permission. It says that a growing group of Conservatives in the Commons led by Zac Goldsmith will next week vote against the policy, part of the Coalition’s Growth and Infrastructure Bill. Mr Goldsmith comments: “This policy simply rips up all local input, and is a recipe for guaranteed hostilities between neighbours. It is madness to remove people’s right to object to developments that threaten their quality of life, and the policy itself represents an absolute U-turn on the Government’s previous commitment to localism”.  “About time too” says Bill Winlow.  “They’ve rattled on abouit localism while centralsing all sorts of things. Let’s have some powers returned to local government”.