I would like to think that I could answer the noble Viscount’s conundrum, but I am not sure that I can. Of course, Natural England’s role of managing the natural environment as well as enhancing and conserving it would be clear. As I understand it, Natural England would have to make up its mind and would give its evidence at any appropriate planning inquiry about such a proposal. One of the issues that it would have to decide would be where the balance lay, which is not a decision that one would envy it necessarily. I do not know whether that goes anywhere towards answering the noble Viscount’s conundrum, but I do not think that there is a simple answer. Perhaps I missed the point.
Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Bach
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 24 January 2006.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Natural Environment and Rural Communities Bill.
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