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Climate Change and Sustainable Energy Bill

I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who anticipates what I will have to say later about potential conflicts between the different levels of local government mentioned in new clause 4. One of my amendments seeks to tease out the conflict that will exist between the desire for more microgeneration and, for example, the conservation areas that the hon. Member for Brighton, Pavilion (David Lepper) mentioned earlier. The new clause is shot through with potential conflicts. In many people’s minds, macrogeneration, which involves wind turbines, and microgeneration—little windmills on people’s houses—give rise to potential planning conflicts. That is to say nothing of the conflicts between the various planning authorities listed in new clause 4. My hon. Friend has made a very important point and I hope that, before we get anywhere near resolving whether we support the new clause, somebody somewhere will give us an answer to such questions. I look forward to that. Perhaps my hon. Friend the Member for Bexhill and Battle or the Minister will seek to catch your eye again, Madam Deputy Speaker, to spell everything out for us, to put our worried minds at ease. I await that moment.