Campaigners warn that the future of thousands of playing fields will be put at risk by Government plans to relax planning rules: Chris Macfarlane offers a planner's perspective.

Helen, Kirsty and Chris are the backbone of KKP's extensive Strategic Framework team - each acknowledged for their distinctive skills, knowledge and aptitudes across a variety of disciplines.

With harsh spending cuts on the horizon, the Government's move to give local communities more power in planning decision processes makes Section 106 agreements more crucial than ever. Chris offers a planner's perspective.

Chris MacFarlane, KKP's newest arrival brings his planning background to the fore with his piece on the recent concerns surrounding Local Development Frameworks. Mirroring the wider political agenda, is it a case of riding the current storm and allowing time for recent government policy changes to settle, or jumping ship and awaiting a possible conservative 'sea change'?