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Commons Bill [HL]

My Lords, unfortunately, in this instance we cannot support the first amendment to which the noble Baroness spoke; but the perhaps more substantial point that she raised at length, which was really quite complicated—at this stage I would not attempt to interpret what she said, let alone produce a reaction to it—will be a very substantial point for the Commons. The issue of greens and open spaces and the rights of developers, and the conflict between the two, is something that we touched on in debating CROW. We came back to it in the first stage of the Bill, and unfortunately we have left it unresolved, but given the good job that this House has done on the rest of the Bill it is perhaps fair to leave the Commons a very interesting point to debate.