Michael Benfield, managing director of Caldicot-based Benfield ATT, told delegates at the National Sustainable Regeneration Conference 2006 that new codes of professional ethics were required in planning policy.
He said a new body of “resource stewards” was needed to help the millions of people who could no longer find affordable homes because of the current system.
Professor Benfield, the conference keynote speaker, was addressing an audience of development, regneration and environmental professionals, as well as government officials