Planning is changing: Local Plans will determine overall development strategy and supplementary Neighbourhood Plans can now add specific local constraints. SBDC and CDC will produce a new joint Local Plan to run until 2036. The process is highly formalised and makes great play of being "evidence led". However, since significant elements of the evidence and the evaluation processes are supplied as 'givens' by HMG, it is in fact policy led. And policy requires the reassessment of Green Belt land – even that which serves the primary and extremely valuable function of separating urban conurbations – in order to identify sites for new housing and employment. Consequently, although it has for many years valiantly benefited not only Taplow, Hitcham and Dorney, by preserving their rural feel, but also both Slough and…