<b></b> With the Green Paper on planning reform due to be published any day now, housebuilders and other interested parties have been giving their views on the key changes that they would like to see in the document.<br><b>HBF has had meetings with the planning minister, Lord Falconer, and has met the DTI minister Brian Wilson over the issue.</b><br><b>Its proposals include:</b><br><b>lbrownfield land - a presumption in favour of new housing, fast track procedures and restrictions on planning gain development control - increase staff, direct resources to commercial schemes, make &amp;“best value&amp;” bite, and promote a new contract with local authoritiesdevelopment plans - restore certainty and commitment, uphold housing allocations, enforce a two-year preparation periodgovernment policy - promote purpose and commitment to delivery of housing with economic realism, market sensitivity and genuine land availability.</b><br>The Town and Country Planning Association, meanwhile, has called for faster decisions and better quality community involvement in planning, while the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) has set out its &amp;“principles for change&amp;”. These include: <p></p><p>rewarding developers which propose high quality buildings making local councillors more accountable for their decisionsincreasing application fees.</p><p>In a speech to the CBI planning minister Lord Falconer said he would take the …