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Housing and Regeneration Bill

I am grateful for that detailed reply. I am not sure that I understood all of it straightaway, but I shall certainly read it carefully and add to my homework on the train tomorrow. If my drafting of the amendment was inadequate, I am duly admonished by the Minister; it performed its purpose of raising the issue and of establishing the basis of the argument. It is not my intention at all to suggest that unopposed orders should require a public inquiry; that would clearly be nonsense. It is my intention to suggest that orders which have objections to them should require a public inquiry in exactly the same way that is required for highways authority proposals. That is the difference and we will want to look at this matter further and perhaps have some correspondence about it. I will take further advice from people who are far more expert than I am in these areas.