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Hands Off Our Land: Property developers gave £500,000 to Tories over past six months
Property developers who stand to gain from the Government’s planning reforms have donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Conservatives since the proposals were first published last summer.
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Figures published by the electoral watchdog last night show that construction and property firms gave £510,000 to the party between July and December last year - more than £2,700 a day.
In the final quarter of 2011, developers gave more than £267,000 to the Tories – 9p in every pound - outstripping the £243,000 for the previous three months, according to the Electoral Commission’s figures.
Last night Labour criticised the figures and said they were evidence of the Tory party’s “unhealthy relationship” with developers.
Roberta Blackman-Woods MP, Shadow Minister for Planning told The Daily Telegraph: “These revelations clearly suggest that there may have been an unhealthy relationship between property developers and the Tory Government.
“The Government must come clean about these allegations and any undue influence these donors may have had in the drafting of the Coalition’s controversial National Planning Policy Framework.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/hands- ... onths.html
