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Planning Bill

I am most grateful to the noble Lord, and I welcome him to the energy Dispatch Box and wish him well. Am I misunderstanding something? If this new procedure is intended to be a signal improvement and acceleration of anything that might have been possible under the old procedure, why is it that people seem to want to escape the new system by getting themselves below the threshold? I find myself deeply puzzled by that. One would have thought that if this was a new procedure that was going to accelerate decisions, people would want to come into it. As my noble friend Lord Reay said, and as the Minister has been saying, it appears that people want to get out of it. Have I misunderstood something?
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
704 c690 
Session
2007-08
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
Legislation
Planning Bill 2007-08
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