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Parish Councils (Planning)

Borough councillors in Kettering and elsewhere who are listening to the debate might suggest that the meetings led by parish councillors that the hon. Gentleman described could in fact have been triggered by the borough councillors for the area, as presumably there are some. However, does he agree that one of the problems with borough councillors getting involved in community representation is that they may disqualify themselves from the planning process at borough level and thus from representing the concerns of the people they were elected to serve? That tension should be addressed.