Video: Hands Off Our Land: simpler and more accessible planning system needed, says minister He said that the MPs were right in saying that the reforms had to "balance the economic with the environmental" issues in planning. But John Stewart from the Home Builders Federation said that he already thought the National Planning Policy Framework had achieved "a pretty good way of ensuring that we have sustainable development." The country is in desperate need of homes. We're not building nearly enough," he added. The Daily Telegraph has urged ministers to think again about the reforms in its Hands Off Our Land campaign.