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Planning and Energy Bill

I have made it clear throughout the Bill's passage—the current drafting reflects this—that I am prepared to consider any suggestion to improve it, but I am advised that using the phrase ““development”” covers all development. Public facilities are a very good example. With a new swimming pool, for example, we would want to be careful to ensure that a proportion of the energy should be generated locally, if possible, particularly in view of the amount of energy that such a facility uses. A local library is another example. I am sure that we could think of a number of developments that were neither residential nor strictly commercial. Let me reassure the House that the current drafting, using the broad term ““development””, covers all development, whether domestic or commercial.