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Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Mike Wood says that giving regional mayors veto powers on planning decisions would lead to "enormous conflict" with local councils and residents. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00In my own local authority of Dudley, they worked really hard on their local plan.
00:06There were some difficult decisions they've put in developments that they'd probably rather not have had to sign off
00:12in order to safeguard the small number of Greenbelt sites that they have in the borough on the edge of
00:20the West Midlands.
00:21I think if the mayor of the West Midlands now comes in and overrules and allows the two applications
00:26that have been submitted for Greenbelt land so that that will be enormous conflict
00:32between not only the council and the mayor but of course local residents and the mayor.
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