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Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill

I would like to think that I could answer the noble Viscount’s conundrum, but I am not sure that I can. Of course, Natural England’s role of managing the natural environment as well as enhancing and conserving it would be clear. As I understand it, Natural England would have to make up its mind and would give its evidence at any appropriate planning inquiry about such a proposal. One of the issues that it would have to decide would be where the balance lay, which is not a decision that one would envy it necessarily. I do not know whether that goes anywhere towards answering the noble Viscount’s conundrum, but I do not think that there is a simple answer. Perhaps I missed the point.