Adjournment debate on Wednesday, 18 January 2006, in the House of Commons, led by David Heath. The answering member was Phil Woolas.

Parish Councils (Planning)

Debate on a motion for the adjournment on planning and parish councils.

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Type: Parliamentary proceeding
Reference: 441 c909-36
Session: 2005-06
Department: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
Chamber / Committee: House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions: David Heath | 441 c933 (Link to this contribution) It is important to say for the record that I have received more complaints from parish councils abou...; Phil Woolas | 441 c929-31 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. It is increasingly recognised that planners are under press...; David Drew | 441 c928-9 (Link to this contribution) Planning officers in rural areas need to be both proactive and sensitive, which we hope are not mutu...; Phil Woolas | 441 c931-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a good point, to which further weight is added by the fact that there are i...; Philip Hollobone | 441 c931 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister look again at the application of the planning fees process? In an area such as Ket...; David Leslie Taylor | 441 c926 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman would have heard my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew)—or for Stroud an...; Andrew George | 441 c924-6 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) on securing the debate...; Phil Woolas | 441 c927-8 (Link to this contribution) Life is full of ironies, one of which is that this extended debate has prevented me from attending a...; Andrew George | 441 c926-7 (Link to this contribution) There are occasions when what the hon. Gentleman says is true. I shall come on in my final remarks t...; Philip Hollobone | 441 c923-4 (Link to this contribution) Not for the first time, and certainly not for the last, the hon. Gentleman makes an extremely effect...; Phil Woolas | 441 c935-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I will put the matter on the record for the ben...; Phil Woolas | 441 c933-5 (Link to this contribution) I thought that the hon. Gentleman was going to say that. I am trying to be helpful, and explain the ...; David Heath | 441 c935 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has given an extremely full response, for which I am grateful. I do not want to prolong...; David Heath | 441 c909-10 (Link to this contribution) I shall come to some aspects of the hon. Gentleman’s question later. I have not attempted the journe...; David Heath | 441 c909 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely pleased to have the opportunity to raise, at perhaps greater length than I might have...; Lord Bellingham | 441 c909 (Link to this contribution) When the hon. Gentleman went on his travels around his constituency—I do not know whether he went on...; David Heath | 441 c911 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, who makes a valuable point. People put themselves forward for elect...; Lord Bellingham | 441 c911 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has been generous in giving way. He is in the middle of an extremely impressive s...; David Heath | 441 c910-1 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will not be surprised to learn that he has just provided a synopsis of what I int...; Andrew George | 441 c911 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend asks whether there is an answer to the problem of the democratic deficit. Often, insu...; David Heath | 441 c911-3 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman brings me back to the main tenor of my speech. That is the principal concern for ...; Philip Davies | 441 c913 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Gentleman on securing this worthwhile Adjournment debate. Does he agree that...; David Heath | 441 c913 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman to a great extent. Since I was first engaged in local government, I ...; Peter Bone | 441 c913 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has secured an important debate. The number of Members in the Chamber for an Adjo...; David Heath | 441 c913-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his kind words. I want to deal briefly with housing and the...; Andrew George | 441 c914 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend give way?; David Heath | 441 c914 (Link to this contribution) I will. I am taking a lot of interventions, but I hope that the House recognises that, as we have an...; Andrew George | 441 c914 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making an important point about housing. In a previous life, before I came to this...; David Heath | 441 c914 (Link to this contribution) With more eloquence than I could muster, my hon. Friend makes exactly the point that I was trying to...; Andrew George | 441 c914-5 (Link to this contribution) It would be helpful if the Minister for Local Government would clarify the point in his reply, but I...; David Heath | 441 c915-6 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. When the Minister replies, he may well say that that is part of the...; Andrew George | 441 c916-7 (Link to this contribution) This is an important point, which might get to the nub of the issue. I apologise if my hon. Friend t...; David Heath | 441 c915 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right and I believe that I said that. Parish councils are not consultees in develo...; Martin Horwood | 441 c915 (Link to this contribution) I apologise in advance that I may have to leave before the end of the debate, which I am glad that m...; David Leslie Taylor | 441 c921 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend said, I was a parish councillor from 1987 to 2003. He is waxing lyrical about the ...; David Drew | 441 c921-2 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely and hope that if the review is genuine and open-minded, and if we sort out the laye...; David Heath | 441 c917-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a valid point. I applaud particularly what he said about enforcement, as it i...; David Drew | 441 c918-21 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) on choosing this subject for debat...; Philip Hollobone | 441 c922-3 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Heath) on securing the debate and I am gr...; David Leslie Taylor | 441 c923 (Link to this contribution) Borough councillors in Kettering and elsewhere who are listening to the debate might suggest that th...; Norman Lamb | 441 c910 (Link to this contribution) I echo my hon. Friend’s tribute to the work of the parish councillors. I am concerned, however, at...
Subjects: Local government Planning Parish and town councils Leigh-on-Mendip Cranmore
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