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Localism Bill

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

731 c12-80, 95-154 

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Communities and Local Government

Legislative stage

Report stage

Procedure

New clauses

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Best | 731 c134-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall be brief as we had an interesting debate on this issue in Committee. Amendment 232...

Lord Best | 731 c136 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think there is some helpful material within that. There are still 58 minutes in which pe...

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Earl Attlee | 731 c135-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Best, for moving his amendment again as the matter h...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c135 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Best, in what he seeks. The noble Lord, Lord Greaves, says ...

Lord Greaves | 731 c135 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, because of the time of night, I shall make a couple of statements rather than explain them...

Lord True | 731 c138 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was not able to be present for this discussion in Committee. I would like to associate m...

Baroness Parminter | 731 c138 (Link to this contribution) I rise to speak briefly to Amendment 232ZB in this group. A limited third-party right of appeal woul...

Lord Reay | 731 c137-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a simplified version of an amendment which I moved in Committee. The idea behind i...

Lord Reay | 731 c136 (Link to this contribution) 232ZA: After Clause 130, insert the following new Clause— ““Determination of appeals (1) Section 79 ...

Lord Beecham | 731 c138-9 (Link to this contribution) Heaven forfend that I should trespass on the griefs of the coalition about unfulfilled promises. It ...

Lord Best | 731 c130 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think the government amendment does something helpful. Councillors on planning committee...

Lord Greaves | 731 c128-30 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, that reminds me of a song about digging a hole, but perhaps we should not go into it. In C...

Earl Attlee | 731 c131-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I feel slightly disappointed that I have not managed to convince all noble Lords of my pos...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c130-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I speak in support of Amendment 223D to leave out Clause 130 and in support of the noble B...

Earl Attlee | 731 c133 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend’s amendment seeks to allow infilling on green belt land if, "““sufficient ...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c132-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the issue of green belt is one of those matters which has caused great consternation. Obvi...

Lord Best | 731 c134 (Link to this contribution) 232: After Clause 130, insert the following new Clause— ““Town and village green legislation (1) Reg...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 731 c133-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it seems to me that the policy has always existed about being able to use infill sites. Th...

Baroness Hamwee | 731 c127-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I think that my noble friend realised that when she started to speak. Some things become a...

Lord Faulkner of Worcester | 731 c127 (Link to this contribution) The House is debating government Amendment 223CA, with which Amendment 223D is grouped. Therefore th...

Baroness Parminter | 731 c126-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 223D. As we know, this clause, which outlines that financial ...

Earl Attlee | 731 c122-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, your Lordships will recall our helpful debate in Committee on this clause, when we dealt w...

Earl Attlee | 731 c122 (Link to this contribution) 223CA: Clause 130, page 123, line 4, at end insert— ““(5) The amendments made by this section do not...

Lord Greaves | 731 c122 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether the Minister incites me to call a Division but I will not do so at this time o...

Earl Attlee | 731 c121-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend’s Amendment 223C is, as he has said, a simpler, more permissive version of...

Baroness Hamwee | 731 c128 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I may clarify that I am not suggesting that the hole is of the noble Earl's making.

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 731 c128 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the Minister deserves complete support. When we debated this in Committee, I made the poin...

Earl Attlee | 731 c118-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 223B seeks to require the Secretary of State, by order, within 12 months of Roya...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c118 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, if I understand my noble friend’s proposition, it is that the hydraulic fracturing of unde...

Earl Attlee | 731 c119 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am sure my ministerial colleagues in the Department of Energy and Climate Change will ta...

Lord Greaves | 731 c119 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, there has been a great deal of discussion previously about thresholds and nationally signi...

Lord Lucas | 731 c117-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I was thinking, as that speech went on, what it would be like if we had been discussing, a...

Lord Greaves | 731 c115-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this issue is closer to me than to other noble Lords, since the Bowland shale, which is th...

Lord Greaves | 731 c119-20 (Link to this contribution) 223C: After Clause 129, insert the following new Clause— ““Notification of initiation of development...

Lord Berkeley | 731 c119 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to noble Lords who have participated in the debate. It has been a good debate in which...

Lord Beecham | 731 c152 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is fitting that the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, should effectively conclude Report stage a...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c154 (Link to this contribution) 249BA: Clause 225, page 203, line 10, at end insert ““, subject to subsection (6). (6) Any amendment...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c153 (Link to this contribution) 249AA: Clause 225, page 202, line 41, at end insert— ““(za) Part 2,”” 249AB: Clause 225, page 203,...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 731 c153 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful for the kind remarks made by the noble Lord, Lord Beecham. I am not who...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 731 c152-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 249 would mean that the department has to produce a post-legislative impact asse...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c154 (Link to this contribution) 249C: Clause 226, page 203, line 15, at end insert— ““( ) section (Arrangements for provision of ser...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c154 (Link to this contribution) 251: In the Title, line 2, leave out ““Local Commission for”” and insert ““Commission for Local”” A...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c147 (Link to this contribution) 241: Clause 221, page 201, line 34, after ““7(3),”” insert— ““(ba) an order under section (Power to ...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c146-7 (Link to this contribution) 236B: Clause 221, page 201, line 4, leave out ““57”” 237: Clause 221, page 201, line 4, leave out ...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c147 (Link to this contribution) 241B: Clause 221, page 201, line 41, at end insert— ““(aa) an order under section (Designation of We...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c147 (Link to this contribution) 241A: Clause 221, page 201, line 34, after ““7(3),”” insert— ““(ba) an order or regulations under Sc...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c147 (Link to this contribution) 242ZBA: Clause 222, page 202, line 17, after ““14,”” insert ““22 to 27,”” 242ZBB: Clause 222, page...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c148 (Link to this contribution) 242A: Schedule 25, page 421, line 6, at end insert— ““Part 2A Other authorities Amendment 242A agre...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c148-51 (Link to this contribution) 244: Schedule 25, page 424, line 10, column 2, at beginning insert— 244A: Schedule 25, page 424, l...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c151 (Link to this contribution) 248A: Clause 224, page 202, line 36, leave out ““the Secretary of State”” and insert ““a Minister of...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 731 c151-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my estimate as to when we would reach the end of Report took me up to midnight, so I recko...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 731 c145 (Link to this contribution) 232AS: Schedule 24, page 419, line 31, at end insert ““(Transfer schemes),””

Earl Attlee | 731 c144-5 (Link to this contribution) 232AC: Clause 218, page 193, line 41, leave out from ““permission)”” to end of line 6 on page 194 an...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c144 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful that noble Lords have heard the reassurance and thanks of my noble and learned friend ...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c146 (Link to this contribution) 233A: Clause 221, page 200, line 38, leave out ““The Secretary of State”” and insert ““A Minister of...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 731 c146 (Link to this contribution) 233: Clause 221, page 200, line 24, after ““Act”” insert ““(other than a power under section 226)””

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 731 c146 (Link to this contribution) These are minor technical amendments dealing with commencement orders. I beg to move. Amendment 233...

Earl Attlee | 731 c145-6 (Link to this contribution) 232AT: Schedule 24, page 420, line 5, leave out from beginning to first ““to”” in line 6 and insert ...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c146 (Link to this contribution) 232B: Clause 221, page 200, line 20, leave out ““the Secretary of State, the Treasury”” and insert “...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 731 c145 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this not-quite-final group consists of minor technical and consequential amendments to Par...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c145 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thought that we were going to have a short speech from the Minister. The first few amend...

Lord Reay | 731 c141 (Link to this contribution) I thank my noble friend Lord True for his support for my amendment. I agree with him that we have no...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c143 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Baroness for that response but it did not deal with the central...

Earl Attlee | 731 c143 (Link to this contribution) 232AB: Clause 218, page 193, line 41, leave out ““In section 14”” and insert ““For sections 14 to 16...

Earl Attlee | 731 c143-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 232AB and will speak to Amendments 232AC to 232AR. I have a short ...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c141 (Link to this contribution) 232AA: After Clause 131, insert the following new Clause— ““Report on Part 5 (1) The Secretary of St...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c141-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I beg to move Amendment 232AA. This calls for an independent review of the provisions of P...

Lord Lucas | 731 c142 (Link to this contribution) I hope we see annual reports. This is such an exciting, interesting and unexplored area that we are ...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c142-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, at this time of night I am going to resist the temptation thrown at me by the Labour Lord ...

Lord Borrie | 731 c96 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, all the non-government amendments in this grouping have been proposed by me and colleagues...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 731 c95-6 (Link to this contribution) This group covers all the government amendments on enforcement. Turning first to Clause 111 on retro...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 731 c95 (Link to this contribution) 211A: Clause 111, page 90, line 18, leave out ““an”” and insert ““a pre-existing””

Baroness Hanham | 731 c95 (Link to this contribution) 211: Schedule 12, page 349, line 44, at end insert— ““21A(1) Section 333 (regulations and orders) is...

Lord Black of Brentwood | 731 c97 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I warmly welcome the government amendments. In talking to this group, I declare an interes...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c77-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is another interesting series of amendments tabled by the noble Lord. I cannot but ag...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c79 (Link to this contribution) 210B: Schedule 10, page 333, line 3, at end insert— ““(3) The power to make regulations under this p...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c79-80 (Link to this contribution) 210D: Schedule 10, page 335, line 27, at end insert— ““(ca) the making of the order contributes to t...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c78-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 210AA would allow neighbourhood development orders to restrict permitted develop...

Lord Lucas | 731 c79 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for that explanation. It is clear that I am not going to ...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 731 c98-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I believe that the noble Lord is right on this. I thank my noble friend Lady Gardner of Pa...

Lord Beecham | 731 c98 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would have thought that this amendment is unnecessary. If an application for retrospecti...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 731 c99 (Link to this contribution) 213: Clause 114, page 94, line 36, at end insert— ““( ) In section 171B (time limits), after subsect...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 731 c99 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for that answer. I really find it surprising that I should have been unfortunat...

Lord Smith of Finsbury | 731 c97 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the noble Lords, Lord Borrie and Lord Black, in welcoming the Government’s amend...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c97 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we obviously support the Government’s amendments on retrospective planning permission, par...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 731 c97 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful for those four splendid contributions. Amendment 211A agreed. Amendment 21...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c97 (Link to this contribution) 211B: Clause 111, page 90, line 20, at end insert— ““(2) For the purposes of the operation of this s...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 731 c98 (Link to this contribution) 212: Clause 111, page 90, line 20, at end insert— ““70D Requirement for consultation on retrospectiv...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 731 c98 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should like to clarify that I am not speaking about what I would call a repeat amendment...

Lord Boyd of Duncansby | 731 c105-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is the first time that I have spoken on Report, so I repeat my declaration of interes...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 731 c103-5 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, has masterfully reduced what could have been a very long speech into ...

Lord Berkeley | 731 c101 (Link to this contribution) 223ZA: Schedule 13, page 359, line 25, at end insert— ““(3A) After subsection (2)(b) insert— ““(ba) ...

Lord Berkeley | 731 c101-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 223ZA and the other amendments in this group. I first apologise...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c100 (Link to this contribution) 213A: Clause 115, page 95, line 41, after ““(5)”” insert ““and the right of appeal under section 225...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c100-1 (Link to this contribution) 214A: Clause 115, page 97, line 28, at end insert— ““225AA Appeal against notice under section 225A ...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 731 c99 (Link to this contribution) I understand the concerns of my noble friend Lady Gardner of Parkes. Again, however, this amendment ...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 731 c100 (Link to this contribution) Again I thank the Minister. I am delighted that he has given me that answer. To have it in writing m...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 731 c99 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am hoping that this one is equally unnecessary. I moved this amendment in Committee—or a...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 731 c114-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is right that the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, has brought this matter back to the attent...

Lord Berkeley | 731 c113-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, this is a completely different subject; it is to do with something which is colloquially c...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c112 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, my noble friend has brought forward what seems to be an entirely reasonable proposition. I...

Earl Attlee | 731 c112-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, first, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, for his work in this area. In answer to the ...

Lord Berkeley | 731 c113 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the Minister for that very positive response. Perhaps I could tell my nob...

Lord Berkeley | 731 c113 (Link to this contribution) 223B: After Clause 129, insert the following new Clause— ““Hydraulic fracturing of underground rock ...

Earl Attlee | 731 c107-10 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank all the Lords who have spoken. On the point about meetings, I cannot understand wh...

Lord Berkeley | 731 c110 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am extremely grateful to the Minister for a very full response on this group of amendmen...

Lord Berkeley | 731 c110-1 (Link to this contribution) 223A: After Clause 118, insert the following new Clause— ““Directions relating to railway projects (...

Lord Berkeley | 731 c111-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I assure the House that I shall be quicker than the last group of amendments. This is some...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c55 (Link to this contribution) I think my inspiration has arrived in this note. We have used the phrase ““well-being of an area”” b...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c55 (Link to this contribution) I am conscious that the Minister has spoken, but can she deal with one point, which may be just a ma...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c53 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I shall work back through the amendments, starting with Amendment 205A, which is tabled in...

Lord Deben | 731 c52-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hesitate to disagree with my noble friends on this subject but I would hope that the Min...

Lord Lucas | 731 c51-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, perhaps I may address my amendment in the group before we get too far into the speeches. I...

Lord Cormack | 731 c51 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I strongly support the amendment moved by my noble friend Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville...

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 731 c55 (Link to this contribution) In that case, I shall give way to the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, who I think wants to intervene.

Lord Colwyn | 731 c55 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord may speak at this point.

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 731 c54-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not entirely clear whether under our procedure I am allowed to say a word about my am...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c50 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will move Amendment 205ZA and then sit down for the other amendments to be moved or spok...

Lord Newton of Braintree | 731 c46 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I cannot resist the temptation, so clearly I am going to have to go shortly. Meanwhile, I ...

Lord Beecham | 731 c47-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am pleased to see that the noble Lord, Lord Newton, takes the same attitude to temptatio...

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 731 c46 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I add the briefest of footnotes to the remarks of my noble friend Lord Newton of Braintree...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c48-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am going to leap in because I think, with the greatest respect, that the noble Earl is o...

Earl of Lytton | 731 c48 (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Lord sits down, perhaps I may ask him if he would comment on the fact that although...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c49-50 (Link to this contribution) 205ZA: Schedule 9, page 319, leave out lines 11 to 18 and insert— ““(a) it is established for the ex...

Lord Greaves | 731 c49 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am grateful to everybody who has taken part. I have to point out to my noble friend Lord...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c58 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we support all three amendments. Amendment 205C agreed.

Baroness Hanham | 731 c57-8 (Link to this contribution) Amendment 205C ensures that a neighbourhood area for which there is a parish council can only be mod...

Earl of Lytton | 731 c62-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise to plead guilty as charged I am afraid. I am indeed a professional practitioner in ...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 731 c63 (Link to this contribution) There is, I believe, a committee of surveyors called the Pyramus and Thisbe group which draws its na...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 731 c59-60 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, for starting this debate. I will speak to Amend...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 731 c60-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support my noble friend’s amendment, which was moved by the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley. ...

Lord Berkeley | 731 c58-9 (Link to this contribution) 206: Schedule 9, page 324, line 36, at end insert— ““(c) in the case of planning permission for the ...

Lord Berkeley | 731 c59 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the noble Earl. This amendment is in my name as well as that of the noble Baroness,...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 731 c58 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Gardner of Parkes, was here a moment ago. I am not sure why she i...

Earl Attlee | 731 c58 (Link to this contribution) If it might help the House, the noble Lord, Lord Berkeley, can move Amendment 206 without any diffic...

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 731 c55-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, from what the Minister has just said, I understand the purpose of her amendment and the ch...

Lord Greaves | 731 c57 (Link to this contribution) My noble friend has just said something I have not heard before, which is that the expectation is th...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c57 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not think we have ever said anything different. The neighbourhood forums are to come ...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c57 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for those two answers, effectively. The latter one is rather il...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c57 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will certainly write to the noble Lord, but my response will be in Hansard and I do not ...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c56 (Link to this contribution) 205B: Schedule 9, page 321, line 18, at end insert— ““( ) A neighbourhood forum designated under thi...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c56 (Link to this contribution) I hope to be brief in moving this amendment because I think a point here was left outstanding. This ...

Lord Greaves | 731 c56 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, has quite rightly said that I brought this amendment forwar...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c56-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am not going to be able to take this any further, so the response I made in Committee is...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c57 (Link to this contribution) 205C: Schedule 9, page 322, line 10, at end insert ““; but if a modification relates to any extent t...

Lord Lucas | 731 c73-4 (Link to this contribution) 210A: Schedule 9, page 329, line 37, at end insert— ““38AA Additional rights of qualifying bodies (1...

Lord Best | 731 c73 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful for the support of the noble Baroness, Lady Eaton, and the noble Lord, ...

Lord True | 731 c71-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I wish to respond to the noble Lord, Lord Best, as he referred to me. It follows from my a...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c75-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, Amendment 210A would give new rights for qualifying bodies—neighbourhood forums and parish...

Lord Lucas | 731 c76 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful for that explanation. Yes, I am getting a clearer idea of where these t...

Lord Lucas | 731 c74-5 (Link to this contribution) There is not much to say in substance about this amendment because my noble friend’s answer to the f...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c75 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had some reservations when I first read this amendment, but then was reassured when the ...

Lord Lucas | 731 c76 (Link to this contribution) 210AA: Schedule 9, page 331, line 9, at end insert— ““Preservation of local amenities (1) The Town a...

Lord Lucas | 731 c77 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will speak at the same time to Amendment 210AB. Amendment 210AC, which is in this group,...

Lord Lucas | 731 c66 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I hope that my noble friend will find a way forward in this area. It seems so consonant wi...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c65-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, before I speak to our Amendment 226 in this group, I have a few general comments about the...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c66-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I must say at the outset that it was only because I became a Minister that I stopped being...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 731 c67-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have listened with interest to the Minister’s reply, and I am sure we would all like to ...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c68 (Link to this contribution) 206A: Schedule 9, page 328, line 8, after first ““in”” insert ““the whole or any part of”” Amendmen...

Lord Best | 731 c69 (Link to this contribution) 207: Schedule 9, page 328, leave out lines 18 to 25 and insert— ““(4) A local planning authority mus...

Lord Best | 731 c69-70 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will also speak to Amendments 208 to 210. These amendments are about the referenda for a...

Lord Beecham | 731 c71 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I do not know about other noble Lords but, having heard the noble Lord speak to his amendm...

Baroness Eaton | 731 c71 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I declare an interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association, which has o...

Earl Attlee | 731 c34-5 (Link to this contribution) 204GB: Clause 103, page 82, line 39, at end insert— ““(za) in subsection (1) (levy to be used to fun...

Earl Attlee | 731 c34 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will consider any input that is brought to me or other Ministers. Amendment 204GA agree...

Earl Attlee | 731 c34 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am struggling to read my inspiration here. However, I intend to make a substantive speec...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c34 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe I said that. I was referring to how it was not described by the noble Lord, Lord Je...

Earl Attlee | 731 c35-6 (Link to this contribution) 204JA: Clause 103, page 83, line 37, leave out ““infrastructure”” and insert ““anything”” 204JB: C...

Lord Brabazon of Tara | 731 c35 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I should point out that if this amendment is agreed to, I cannot call Amendment 204J. Ame...

Earl Attlee | 731 c35 (Link to this contribution) 204HB: Clause 103, page 83, line 10, leave out from ““to”” to end of line 13 and insert ““support th...

Earl Attlee | 731 c35 (Link to this contribution) 204HA: Clause 103, page 83, line 2, leave out from ““projects)”” to end of line 3 and insert ““for “...

Lord True | 731 c36 (Link to this contribution) 205: Clause 104, page 84, line 9, at end insert— ““( ) Where a local authority has a scheme or proce...

Lord True | 731 c36-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in moving this amendment I should remind the House that I lead a London borough council, a...

Lord Lucas | 731 c40-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I entirely support my noble friend’s amendment for two principal reasons. One is that loca...

Lord Newton of Braintree | 731 c40 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I had hoped to be here the other night when I thought that we would reach my noble friend’...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c41-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, once again we have had an interesting debate on this part of the Bill and I am grateful to...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c41 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I got more supportive of the amendment the longer the debate went on. I was almost there w...

Lord Greaves | 731 c43 (Link to this contribution) 205ZZA: After Clause 104, insert the following new Clause— ““Community governance review in area of ...

Lord True | 731 c42-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, of course I am extremely grateful for what my noble friend has said. As I have said in my ...

Earl of Lytton | 731 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the principle behind the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord Greaves. I cannot spe...

Lord Greaves | 731 c44-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it has been drawn to my attention that there is a typo in my proposed new Section 80A(3). ...

Lord Greaves | 731 c38-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I enthusiastically support the amendment moved by the noble Lord, Lord True. I do not want...

Lord Lucas | 731 c46 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have an amendment which covers very much this area—Amendment 210AC—which I do not now ha...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c22-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am very grateful that this matter has been raised again and that the noble Lord, Lord Be...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 731 c24 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister say a word or two more specifically about the status of the planning policy statem...

Earl of Lytton | 731 c20-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I rise briefly first to declare an interest as a practising chartered surveyor and as some...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c21-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, like all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate today, we support the need for transit...

Lord Cormack | 731 c19-20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I associate myself with the remarks of the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews, who talked about ...

Lord Lucas | 731 c20 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in former times it was the custom of some generals after a victory to allow a limited peri...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c25 (Link to this contribution) Before the noble Baroness sits down, I may have missed it and she may have covered it, but we could ...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c25 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I will have to write to the noble Lord on that. I do not know whether these are going to b...

Lord Avebury | 731 c24-5 (Link to this contribution) Is the noble Baroness aware that, according to the research conducted by the Irish Traveller Movemen...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c24 (Link to this contribution) They are already going to be able to take into account the emerging NPPF as a policy statement. I sh...

Lord Best | 731 c26 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have clearly come a long way since the Committee stage of the Bill and I am very gratef...

Earl Attlee | 731 c27 (Link to this contribution) 204GA: Clause 103, page 82, line 33, leave out from ““section”” to end of line 38 and insert ““205(2...

Earl Attlee | 731 c27-9 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, in speaking to Amendment 204GA, I shall also speak to government Amendments 204GB to 204GD...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 731 c29-31 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I am most grateful to my noble friend for the care with which he has set out these quite s...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c25 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, while the regional strategies are there and before they have been revoked, the plan will h...

Lord Greaves | 731 c25-6 (Link to this contribution) Before my noble friend the Minister sits down, would she consider the possibility that not giving an...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c26 (Link to this contribution) Discussions are going on with the Planning Inspectorate at the moment to see what is required to mak...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c32 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we share some of the concerns expressed by the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, and have some symp...

Lord Shipley | 731 c31-2 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I agree with my noble friend Lord Jenkin on the need to be clearer on the gain to neighbou...

Earl Attlee | 731 c32-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have contributed to this short debate. Responding first to my ...

Lord Best | 731 c12-3 (Link to this contribution) 204EA: After Clause 100, insert the following new Clause— ““Revision of local development documents ...

Lord Best | 731 c13-5 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are on the planning parts of the Localism Bill and my amendment addresses the transitio...

Baroness Whitaker | 731 c16 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would like to add my support to Amendment 204EA—supported also by the RTPI, which I thin...

Lord Greaves | 731 c15-6 (Link to this contribution) I have the other amendment in this group, Amendment 204F, which has a very similar purpose. I very m...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 731 c17-8 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I support the thrust of the amendments tabled by the noble Lords, Lord Best and Lord Greav...

Lord Avebury | 731 c16-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I would like to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, in what she said, and to point o...

Baroness Andrews | 731 c19 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I spoke briefly on the topic in Committee and I was very glad that it reappeared on the Ma...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 731 c34 (Link to this contribution) Is my noble friend prepared to consider further any limitations in the amendments that he has put do...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 731 c132 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I discussed this amendment to a certain extent at an earlier stage. Therefore, I do not fe...

Lord Howarth of Newport | 731 c128 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is ironic that the Government's attempt to clarify the purport of the existing law has ...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c121 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we are in total agreement with the amendment; indeed we should have added our name to it. ...

Lord Greaves | 731 c120-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, the amendment is a slight variation of an amendment that I moved in Committee and concerns...

Lord Jenkin of Roding | 731 c151 (Link to this contribution) 249: After Clause 224, insert the following new Clause— ““Post-legislative impact assessment (1) The...

Lord Shutt of Greetland | 731 c139-41 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have spoken. I should like, first, to respond to Amendment 232ZB i...

Lord Boyd of Duncansby | 731 c144 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, briefly, Clause 218 was put in without any debate in Committee. I simply thank the Governm...

Lord McKenzie of Luton | 731 c106-7 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, it is unfortunate that a raft of technical amendments have come forward very late in the d...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c53-4 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken. With regard to Amendment 205ZA, I hope I have mad...

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 731 c50 (Link to this contribution) 205ZB: Schedule 9, line 3, leave out ““and environmental”” and insert ““ , environmental and cultura...

Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville | 731 c50-1 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, I have Amendments 205ZB and 205ZC in this group, to which I will speak. I immediately welc...

Baroness Hanham | 731 c72-3 (Link to this contribution) My Lords, we have returned somewhat to the discussion that we had on Amendment 205 at the beginning ...

Earl of Lytton | 731 c63-5 (Link to this contribution) Yes indeed. It is actually called the Pyramus and Thisbe Club, and it has London and regional repres...

Baroness Gardner of Parkes | 731 c132 (Link to this contribution) 228: After Clause 130, insert the following new Clause— ““Development on green belt land The appropr...

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