Housing secretary embroils Conservatives in second planning row

Robert Jenrick facing fresh scrutiny after intervening in project backed by Tory peer and donors

Robert Jenrick
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick clinging on to job amid planning row
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Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has been drawn into a second planning row in as many weeks amid reports that he intervened in a development project funded by high-profile Conservatives and party donors.

According to The Times, Jenrick “used his ministerial planning powers” to rule on an appeal by the Jockey Club, Britain’s largest horse-racing organisation, for permission to build 318 homes and a hotel at the Sandown Park Racecourse in Surrey.

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