It has worked with the Federation of Small Business to update planning policy to facilitate economic development and further changes to the planning system to promote economic development are currently out to consultation.

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Driven by government-wide budget cuts, this reduction is expected to primarily affect acquisition planning, IT system development and program management contracts.

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Lacking a forward planning process based on scenario development, and lacking a good market sensing system that would pick up on the early market shift as novice competitor Apple started to really change the market, these companies are now falling rapidly to the wayside.

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This would be true of today's announcement to streamline and simplify the planning system, and to introduce a presumption in favour of supposedly sustainable development into planning decisions.

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