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Housing and Regeneration Bill

moved Amendment No. 60: 60: Schedule 3, page 157, line 19, at end insert— ““( ) In carrying out its functions, the HCA shall have regard to the desirability of conserving designated landscape (including Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (““AONB””) and National Parks), open spaces, village greens, common land and allotments, and shall ensure that its plans and activities fully respect the purposes and objectives of AONB and National Park designations.”” The noble Baroness said: I shall speak far more briefly to this amendment. This is a probing amendment to check how the HCA will relate to specially designated landscapes, which obviously have different planning requirements. I should declare that I am a vice-president of the Council for National Parks and I also have the interesting designation of ““AONB champion”” for our North Devon AONB. The amendment raises questions about various designations but it is probing and I feel that the Minister will have got the idea from it, so I do not need to go on at length. I beg to move.