Conservative MPs put pressure on government to scrap planning reforms

Labour has called upcoming bill a developers' charter', while Tories fear it cost them the Chesham and Amersham byelection

Communities should not have new housing shoved down their throats with no right to object, Conservative MPs have urged as they upped pressure on the government to scrap some of its controversial planning reforms.

They went public with their concerns after the Tories lost the Chesham and Amersham byelection last week, a defeat partly blamed on how planning changes and HS2 would affect green belt areas such as the Buckinghamshire seat.