Planning Bill

moved Amendment No. 269: 269: Clause 85, page 45, line 2, at end insert— ““( ) Subject to subsection (3), nothing in this section shall restrict the rights of interested parties to make oral representations or cross-examine witnesses.”” The noble Lord said: I feel that I should apologise to the people in the Public Gallery, who must have found that part of our proceedings rather difficult to understand. We should be clear that we are badly delayed in our progress through the Bill and had to do something to accelerate matters. Indeed, one could argue that our achievements in this Committee—