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Debate on Thursday, 20 October 2011, in the House of Commons, led by Greg Clark. The answering member was Hilary Benn.

National Planning Policy Framework

Debate on a motion that this House has considered the matter of the National Planning Policy Framework.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
533 c1076-169 
Session
2010-12
Department
Department for Communities and Local Government
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Speaker | 533 c1094 (Link to this contribution) Order. May I remind Members that there is an eight-minute time limit on speeches?
Speaker | 533 c1145 (Link to this contribution) Order. Because people have shown restraint, for which I am extremely grateful, I can increase the ti...
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Speaker | 533 c1132 (Link to this contribution) Order. To accommodate more Members, the time limit on speeches is being reduced to five minutes. Tha...
Greg Clark | 533 c1079 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will understand that planning Ministers cannot comment on specific situations such as...
Greg Clark | 533 c1079 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my hon. Friend the Member for Reading West (Alok Sharma) and then make some progr...
Greg Clark | 533 c1078-9 (Link to this contribution) I do apologise; the hon. Gentleman is from Sefton. I will therefore not make the point that I intend...
Greg Clark | 533 c1077-8 (Link to this contribution) Let me make some progress, and then I will of course give way to hon. Members on both sides of the C...
Natascha Engel | 533 c1078 (Link to this contribution) This is really about definitions. I asked the Prime Minister a question about that, and he said that...
Greg Clark | 533 c1078 (Link to this contribution) I will address that point explicitly later in my remarks. I might just say, however, that the hon. G...
Greg Clark | 533 c1078 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased that the hon. Lady has raised that point. We are indeed giving power to local councils,...
Bill Esterson | 533 c1078 (Link to this contribution) My constituents have similar concerns to those of my hon. Friends about the Bill's impact. The bigge...
Greg Clark | 533 c1077 (Link to this contribution) I am very disappointed that the hon. Gentleman has taken that line. Property developers had no influ...
Barry Sheerman | 533 c1077 (Link to this contribution) Let me say in a supportive way that we could have all the consultation in the world, but at the end ...
Greg Clark | 533 c1077 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right, but it is important to tackle the fundamentals. That is why,...
Tristram Hunt | 533 c1076-7 (Link to this contribution) It is absolutely right that we have an open and transparent debate. Will the Minister therefore expl...
Greg Clark | 533 c1084 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress, and the hon. Lady intervened earlier. Let me say something about the ...
Greg Clark | 533 c1084 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes an excellent point; it is exactly the intention that councils should be abl...
Greg Clark | 533 c1083 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the Chairman of the Select Committee.
Clive Betts | 533 c1083-4 (Link to this contribution) Let me ask the Minister about the issue of 20%, as it is important to the context of building on lan...
Greg Clark | 533 c1083 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress, as I want Members to able to contribute to the debate. Let me deal wit...
Greg Clark | 533 c1085-6 (Link to this contribution) I am taking no more interventions. It follows from everything I have said about the purpose of thes...
Hilary Benn | 533 c1086-7 (Link to this contribution) Like the Minister, I would like to express my appreciation to my right hon. Friend the Member for Do...
Greg Clark | 533 c1085 (Link to this contribution) I am not taking any more interventions, as Mr Deputy Speaker has indicated that he thinks I have spo...
Speaker | 533 c1085 (Link to this contribution) It was the Minister himself, not me, who said that he would be brief in order to allow Back Benchers...
Greg Clark | 533 c1085 (Link to this contribution) You are correct and punctilious, Mr Deputy Speaker, in holding me to my commitment. Let me deal wit...
Greg Clark | 533 c1084-5 (Link to this contribution) That was more hope than expectation, Mr Deputy Speaker. I will finish shortly. I did not think anyth...
Hilary Benn | 533 c1088 (Link to this contribution) It sounds like the hon. Lady is describing localism in action. If the Government say that local coun...
Anna Soubry | 533 c1088 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that it is most unfortunate that my Labour-led borough council i...
Lord Sharma | 533 c1087 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the right hon. Gentleman agrees with much of what my right hon. Friend the Minis...
Hilary Benn | 533 c1087 (Link to this contribution) The planning policy that we all inherited had great strengths and evolved over time. My concern is t...
Paul Farrelly | 533 c1087 (Link to this contribution) We are fortunate in Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stoke-on-Trent to have a robust local core spatial plan...
Hilary Benn | 533 c1087 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. I shall come to it later because it is fundamental to the ...
Natascha Engel | 533 c1088 (Link to this contribution) I want to return to the point about confusion in the Government's message. Does my right hon. Friend...
Hilary Benn | 533 c1088 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an extremely powerful point. Such responses created considerable concern while ...
Hilary Benn | 533 c1087-8 (Link to this contribution) I am interested that the hon. Gentleman reads that into my remarks. I shall say something about that...
Nick Raynsford | 533 c1091 (Link to this contribution) I strongly agree with what my right hon. Friend is saying. Does he agree with me that it is necessar...
Derek Twigg | 533 c1089 (Link to this contribution) The Government did not explain exactly what they meant by giving communities a greater say. Most of ...
Bill Esterson | 533 c1089-90 (Link to this contribution) I am sure my right hon. Friend agrees that retaining the ““brownfield first”” policy, under which th...
Hilary Benn | 533 c1090 (Link to this contribution) The developers must speak for themselves, but I cannot understand why the Government have abandoned ...
Caroline Lucas | 533 c1090 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman agree that the"““presumption in favour of sustainable development””" ...
Hilary Benn | 533 c1091 (Link to this contribution) That point has been raised by a number of organisations in response to the consultation, and I shall...
Mark Pawsey | 533 c1091 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Hilary Benn | 533 c1091 (Link to this contribution) I have given way a number of times already, and I am anxious to make progress. Given the primacy of...
Hilary Benn | 533 c1088-9 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make a little more progress. The ham-fisted way in which aspects of planning policy h...
Mark Pawsey | 533 c1091-2 (Link to this contribution) The issue of sustainable development comes into play only in the absence of a local plan. Does the r...
Hilary Benn | 533 c1091 (Link to this contribution) I agree with my right hon. Friend. I am sure that the revised draft will be a slightly longer docume...
Duncan Hames | 533 c1095 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Lady agree that the Government will have failed to achieve greater localism through th...
Rebecca Harris | 533 c1094 (Link to this contribution) It is an honour to be called so early in this important debate, Mr Deputy Speaker. I wish to start ...
Hilary Benn | 533 c1093-4 (Link to this contribution) No, I am going to draw my remarks to a close, as many Members wish to contribute to the debate. Has...
James Clappison | 533 c1093 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Hilary Benn | 533 c1092-3 (Link to this contribution) I have given way to the hon. Gentleman before, and I want to make some progress. I cannot understan...
Marcus Jones | 533 c1092 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Hilary Benn | 533 c1092 (Link to this contribution) The NPPF says that in the absence of such a plan there should be a presumption in favour of sustaina...
Rebecca Harris | 533 c1095 (Link to this contribution) I absolutely agree. I very much want decisions to be much more locally based. That inspector's deman...
Rebecca Harris | 533 c1095 (Link to this contribution) I very much take that point. It is often much easier to argue that a very attractive, leafy, virgin ...
Robert Buckland | 533 c1095 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend hits the nail on the head in relation to planning inquiries: Swindon has had similar ...
Annette Brooke | 533 c1100 (Link to this contribution) I think that the Government have been rather successful this year in achieving a commitment to affor...
Caroline Lucas | 533 c1100 (Link to this contribution) I very much support what the hon. Lady is saying, passionately, about housing. However, does she agr...
Nick Raynsford | 533 c1100-1 (Link to this contribution) I draw attention to the interests declared on the Register of Members' Financial Interests and highl...
Rebecca Harris | 533 c1095-7 (Link to this contribution) I am not sure that it does. The new homes bonus gives something new to councils to help them to brin...
Alison Seabeck | 533 c1095 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for stopping the hon. Lady in mid flow. Does she accept that the Government's new homes ...
Annette Brooke | 533 c1098-100 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, welcome the right hon. Member for Leeds Central (Hilary Benn) to his new role? I also co...
Ann Coffey | 533 c1097-8 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the new draft national planning policy framework's stated aim of reducing the bureaucratic...
Speaker | 533 c1101 (Link to this contribution) Order. If the right hon. Gentleman wants to give way he will give way. The hon. Gentleman should sit...
Nick Raynsford | 533 c1101 (Link to this contribution) No; I have limited time and I have to make some progress. Having thrown the system into chaos—
George Hollingbery | 533 c1101 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
George Hollingbery | 533 c1102 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful. I suspect that what we have just heard is long on invective and short on fact. T...
Nick Raynsford | 533 c1102 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to the hon. Gentleman.
George Hollingbery | 533 c1102 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Nick Raynsford | 533 c1102 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. When the system had been thrown into chaos, contributing to a collapse...
Heidi Alexander | 533 c1103 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on an excellent speech. Does he share my concern about the absen...
Nick Raynsford | 533 c1102-3 (Link to this contribution) First, I have given a number of facts. Perhaps the hon. Gentleman should advise his Front-Bench team...
Nick Raynsford | 533 c1103-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes, as always, a very telling point. This is the problem: the NPPF has been put to...
Alison Seabeck | 533 c1104-5 (Link to this contribution) I draw Members' attention to the interests of my right hon. Friend the Member for Greenwich and Wool...
Heather Wheeler | 533 c1104 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the right hon. Member for Greenwich and Woolwich (Mr Raynsford), but I am...
Alison Seabeck | 533 c1105 (Link to this contribution) I take the right hon. Gentleman's point, but regional spatial strategies were set up to ensure that,...
Lord Beith | 533 c1105 (Link to this contribution) I remind the hon. Lady that the regional spatial strategy in Northumberland meant that authorities c...
Alison Seabeck | 533 c1105-7 (Link to this contribution) No, not at the moment. We focused on existing communities, and that is missing from the NPPF, and w...
Graham P Jones | 533 c1107 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman seems to know a lot about that development. In the planning committee, what did t...
Jason McCartney | 533 c1107 (Link to this contribution) The consultation on the draft national planning policy framework is far and away the biggest issue i...
Jason McCartney | 533 c1107 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite right— know a lot about this, and sat through a whole day of the plannin...
Greg Clark | 533 c1079 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right, and that is now a shared view. As I have said, the right hon. Member for We...
Lord Sharma | 533 c1079 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for everything that he is saying about delivering localism in planning, for whi...
Greg Clark | 533 c1080 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress, because lots of Members want to speak and I do not want to take up too...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 533 c1080 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on having elevated the debate on planning policy, which is vital...
Greg Clark | 533 c1080 (Link to this contribution) I will, and I will have more to say about that shortly.
Greg Clark | 533 c1080-1 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress, because this is principally an opportunity for colleagues to make spee...
Graham Stringer | 533 c1082 (Link to this contribution) I am with the Minister when it comes to abolishing the regional spatial strategies. They were author...
Greg Clark | 533 c1081-2 (Link to this contribution) It will be obvious to the right hon. Gentleman that I am taking a long-term view. I have said explic...
Greg Clark | 533 c1081 (Link to this contribution) May I just finish this point? The British Chambers of Commerce has said that the system is"““too co...
Greg Clark | 533 c1082-3 (Link to this contribution) I am responding to the hon. Member for Blackley and Broughton (Graham Stringer). In the draft frame...
Duncan Hames | 533 c1083 (Link to this contribution) The planning framework also requires local authorities to bring forward an additional 20% spare land...
Greg Clark | 533 c1082 (Link to this contribution) Of course I will. Let me turn to some of the concerns that have been raised, of which that is one. I...
James Morris | 533 c1159 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point and he is standing up for his constituents. As I was saying, the ...
Marcus Jones | 533 c1159 (Link to this contribution) Earlier in his contribution, my hon. Friend mentioned neighbourhood planning. Does he agree that nei...
James Morris | 533 c1157-9 (Link to this contribution) I think it was Lord Palmerston who is supposed to have said that only three people had ever really u...
Anna Soubry | 533 c1157 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful, believe it or not, for that intervention, because the hon. Gentleman makes a ser...
Martin Horwood | 533 c1157 (Link to this contribution) At the risk of continuing the love-in, may I say that I have some sympathy, because three Gloucester...
Anna Soubry | 533 c1155-7 (Link to this contribution) May I begin by saying that I was delighted to have the opportunity on Tuesday to hold a debate in We...
Martin Horwood | 533 c1153-5 (Link to this contribution) In the spirit of the debate, may I refer hon. Members to the register and declare my membership of t...
Neil Carmichael | 533 c1152-3 (Link to this contribution) I draw everyone's attention to my interests as listed in the register. I am committed to protecting...
Andrea Leadsom | 533 c1151-2 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to have the chance to speak in this debate and, in particular, to congratulate those ...
Peter Aldous | 533 c1149-51 (Link to this contribution) I begin by stating that before I came to this place last May I was a chartered surveyor for 27 years...
Bob Russell | 533 c1165 (Link to this contribution) On the preservation and retention of green spaces, the Secretary of State made a personal visit, for...
Lord Stunell | 533 c1164-5 (Link to this contribution) There was a great deal of consensus in the debate up to the point when the hon. Member for Birmingha...
Jack Dromey | 533 c1162-4 (Link to this contribution) This debate has been wide ranging and informed, with many memorable contributions, and has been cond...
Mark Pawsey | 533 c1161-2 (Link to this contribution) I say at the outset that it is important not to underestimate the importance of this afternoon's deb...
Jack Dromey | 533 c1164 (Link to this contribution) Given the time available, I will not. The ““brownfield first”” policy was working. Last year, 76% o...
Marcus Jones | 533 c1164 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Dominic Raab | 533 c1159-61 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Speaker, for the opportunity to speak in this important debate. Elmbridge borough, wh...
Marcus Jones | 533 c1134 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry; unfortunately, because of the time I have left, I cannot give way. Local plans must be ...
Mary Glindon | 533 c1134 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend mentions several things that could be included in the document, but many hon. Members...
Graham P Jones | 533 c1134 (Link to this contribution) There have been many good contributions today, and many points have been made, but in the short time...
Gavin Shuker | 533 c1134 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that the complexity he mentions is a primary reason why, when the framewor...
Nigel Mills | 533 c1138 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to speak in this debate. When I was first elected as an MP, one of the older hands ...
David Tredinnick | 533 c1138 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that we also have to protect green wedges and agricultural blocks to avoid...
Graham P Jones | 533 c1135-6 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. My hon. Friend has obviously seen an advance copy of my speech. The planning document i...
Damian Collins | 533 c1136-8 (Link to this contribution) We have learned this afternoon of the momentous news from Libya of the death of Colonel Gaddafi. On ...
Nigel Mills | 533 c1138-40 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend and reiterate that point. One of the key advantages for the green be...
Sam Gyimah | 533 c1140 (Link to this contribution) The Minister is quite familiar with my constituency, given that he has been kind enough to speak to ...
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 533 c1140 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is making a powerful argument. He started by talking about how many of his constituen...
Sam Gyimah | 533 c1140-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for her point, which has been well noted in Hansard. The concern about the c...
Stephen Gilbert | 533 c1141-2 (Link to this contribution) Top-down, imposed on communities; done to people, not with them; reflecting the ambitions of regiona...
George Hollingbery | 533 c1142-4 (Link to this contribution) I apologise in advance if, having had to truncate my remarks, they sound a little staccato and disjo...
Sheryll Murray | 533 c1145-6 (Link to this contribution) I hope that I do not take my six minutes, Mr Deputy Speaker. Like many other hon. Members, I have s...
Paul Maynard | 533 c1146-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to contribute to the debate. While I endorse the vast bulk of the Government's prop...
Sheryll Murray | 533 c1126 (Link to this contribution) Does the hon. Gentleman not agree that SSSIs and areas of outstanding natural beauty result from env...
Gavin Shuker | 533 c1126 (Link to this contribution) I am not entirely clear on the hon. Lady's point.
Martin Horwood | 533 c1125 (Link to this contribution) Regional spatial strategies did not encourage local authorities to work together; they imposed thing...
Gavin Shuker | 533 c1125-6 (Link to this contribution) That highlights the point I have just made: Members have different opinions. I regularly knock on do...
Martin Vickers | 533 c1124 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend, who is rapidly becoming the intervener-in-chief on the Government Benches, makes a w...
Gavin Shuker | 533 c1124-5 (Link to this contribution) I represent Luton South and live in south-east England, where there is a great and pressing need for...
Andrew Percy | 533 c1124 (Link to this contribution) We should pay tribute to those councillors who are leading on sustainability and community-led plans...
Steve Brine | 533 c1127-9 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Luton South (Gavin Shuker), as always. The subject of...
Gavin Shuker | 533 c1126-7 (Link to this contribution) I am happy to clear that up for the hon. Lady, as I do not believe that is the case. The NPPF does n...
Sheryll Murray | 533 c1126 (Link to this contribution) We are discussing the NPPF, which I understand will not do anything about the existing SSSIs and AON...
Heidi Alexander | 533 c1131 (Link to this contribution) I do not have the figures that the hon. Lady requests, but I was about to go on to say that we need ...
Heidi Alexander | 533 c1132 (Link to this contribution) I have given way several times, and I am conscious that many Members wish to speak. The housing nee...
Heidi Alexander | 533 c1129-30 (Link to this contribution) I speak today as someone who has spent four years of my life dealing with the planning system in Lon...
Heidi Alexander | 533 c1130 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman has not been here for the whole debate. We have heard convincing evid...
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 533 c1131 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady speaks of 86% of planning applications having been approved, but does she have informa...
Marcus Jones | 533 c1133-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to today's debate, which h...
James Clappison | 533 c1118-9 (Link to this contribution) That is an interesting proposition that could perhaps be considered on another day and in the fullne...
James Clappison | 533 c1119 (Link to this contribution) I will give way to my hon. Friend, because I think that that will gain me an extra minute.
Bob Stewart | 533 c1119 (Link to this contribution) When we refer to ““special circumstances””, are we referring to a situation in which locals really w...
James Clappison | 533 c1119-20 (Link to this contribution) What the developers have done in the past is give their interpretation of what local people should w...
Joan Walley | 533 c1116 (Link to this contribution) But where are the inducements to build houses in Stoke-on-Trent, where there is planning permission ...
Duncan Hames | 533 c1116 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is recognised for her expertise on this subject. Does she agree that the reason the de...
Graham P Jones | 533 c1118 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman therefore be in favour of a right of appeal not for the applicants, but for...
James Clappison | 533 c1117-8 (Link to this contribution) I declare my relevant interests in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. Let me begin by wa...
Henry Smith | 533 c1123 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend not agree that the best people to decide which areas in a given part of the coun...
Martin Vickers | 533 c1123-4 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree, but none of the measures for which I am arguing would take power away from local p...
Tristram Hunt | 533 c1122-3 (Link to this contribution) I believe in contention. I think it is a good thing. Politics results from it. I think that the nobl...
Martin Vickers | 533 c1123 (Link to this contribution) As others have observed, this is a good debate which raises issues that go to the heart of our commu...
Marcus Jones | 533 c1121 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman extols the virtues of the ““town centre first”” policy. I know that he is a well-...
Tristram Hunt | 533 c1120-1 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Hertsmere (Mr Clappison). I associate myself st...
Greg Clark | 533 c1122 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is seeking to draw partisanship into the debate. Has he listened to the words of ...
Tristram Hunt | 533 c1121 (Link to this contribution) I know that Government Members do not believe in fact-based discussion, but the reality is that unde...
Andrew Percy | 533 c1121 (Link to this contribution) I spent 10 years as a city councillor under the previous Government's planning system, and I am afra...
Tristram Hunt | 533 c1121 (Link to this contribution) We were so happy when the former Secretary of State, the former Member for Suffolk Coastal, John Gum...
Duncan Hames | 533 c1111 (Link to this contribution) I am finding the hon. Gentleman's speech very informative, as indeed was his pertinent intervention ...
Clive Betts | 533 c1111-2 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely right. No one here wants lawyers involved in making decisions that should properl...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 533 c1112-3 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to follow the hon. Member for Sheffield South East (Mr Betts), the Chairman of the Co...
Jason McCartney | 533 c1108-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Lady for her comment. Obviously I can only talk knowledgeably about my local counci...
Heidi Alexander | 533 c1109 (Link to this contribution) I am genuinely interested in the hon. Gentleman's answer to this question: are community groups in h...
Jason McCartney | 533 c1109 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady makes an excellent point. That is why I have given those groups details about the neig...
Clive Betts | 533 c1109-11 (Link to this contribution) The Communities and Local Government Committee, which I chair, is in the middle of an inquiry on the...
Mary Glindon | 533 c1108 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has put the emphasis on a Labour council, but in my Tory-run council, residents g...
Jason McCartney | 533 c1107-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is a doughty campaigner on the issue of wind turbines in his constituency, and I know...
Joan Walley | 533 c1115-6 (Link to this contribution) This is an interesting and important debate, not least because it comes in the context of the Govern...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 533 c1114-5 (Link to this contribution) I said that I would give way only once, if my hon. Friend does not mind. Special consideration need...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 533 c1114 (Link to this contribution) Well, we are in coalition together. Secondly, exceptions and additional neighbourhood sites should ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 533 c1113 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman. He must have my notes, so I shall continue. The Government should ...
Duncan Hames | 533 c1113 (Link to this contribution) In response to my earlier question, the Minister said that he did not want to require local authorit...
Duncan Hames | 533 c1113 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Simon Hughes | 533 c1166 (Link to this contribution) I agree completely with my hon. Friend. In constituencies such as mine, where there is pressure for ...
Lord Stunell | 533 c1166 (Link to this contribution) I hope to cover that point more fully in a few minutes. The hon. Lady and I, surprisingly enough, ar...
Mark Pawsey | 533 c1167 (Link to this contribution) The Minister refers to the importance of plans. Does he agree that the essential purpose of the NPPF...
Lord Stunell | 533 c1166-7 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes a very interesting point. I hope that he has encapsulated it in the repre...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 533 c1167 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the Minister can answer one point that was raised by a number of Members. Do the Go...
Lord Stunell | 533 c1167 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. I shall deal with some of the specific points that have been raised in a mo...
Martin Horwood | 533 c1168 (Link to this contribution) I entirely sympathise with my hon. Friend's wish to move to a definition of environmental value, but...
Lord Stunell | 533 c1167-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a page ahead of me, but I will get there very shortly. Of all the thousands o...
Lord Stunell | 533 c1165-6 (Link to this contribution) I shall certainly respond to my hon. Friend, because the same point has been raised by others, inclu...
Joan Walley | 533 c1166 (Link to this contribution) The argument is not about sustainable development, but about its definition. We do not want a defini...
Speaker | 533 c1169 (Link to this contribution) We come now to the Adjournment debate. I appeal to hon. Members who, inexplicably, are leaving the C...
Jack Dromey | 533 c1168 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Lord Stunell | 533 c1168-9 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry, but I do not have enough time. On the presumption in favour of sustainable development,...
Lord Stunell | 533 c1168 (Link to this contribution) Given that my hon. Friend's submission to the consultation is longer than the NPPF itself, I am sure...
Bob Russell | 533 c1079 (Link to this contribution) Local decisions by local councils are important, but may I draw the Minister's attention to what has...
Marcus Jones | 533 c1087 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman seems to be indicating that he favours the previous Labour Government's app...
Hilary Benn | 533 c1089 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has raised an important point. There are those who think that neighbourhood planning ...
Speaker | 533 c1161 (Link to this contribution) Order. The wind-ups are due to begin at 5.30 pm, so we have time for a very short contribution from ...
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 533 c1144-5 (Link to this contribution) I draw attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. Following the spirit o...
John Glen | 533 c1147-9 (Link to this contribution) I broadly support the intentions of this new framework. For far too long, the planning process has b...
Henry Smith | 533 c1130 (Link to this contribution) Will not the hon. Lady concede that during the last decade and a bit of the previous Government, des...
Joan Walley | 533 c1117 (Link to this contribution) This is a really complex issue, and the former Labour Government had problems with it when the legis...
Greg Clark | 533 c1076 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of the National Planning Policy Framework."...
Nick Raynsford | 533 c1081 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister not recognise that, if he takes the period of five years from 2005 to 2010, which ...
Greg Clark | 533 c1083 (Link to this contribution) It is the Government's clear intention that it should be the case, as it is a requirement to bring f...
Graham P Jones | 533 c1134 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I do, and that was a very good intervention. Given that this is a housing supply-side problem,...
Andrew Percy | 533 c1107 (Link to this contribution) I want to expand on the point that my hon. Friend made about residents' fears. A planning appeal is ...
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Construction Brownfield sites Housing Green belt Planning permission Planning Property development Standards Regional planning and development Sustainable development Affordable housing
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