Planning Bill

I am not a landowner in the green belt, but I support the amendment proposed by the noble Lord, Lord Cobbold, who spoke convincingly on this subject at Second Reading, when he drew the picture of a blanket freeze on all development in villages and hamlets in the green belt, making it sound like a blight that they were suffering from. He provided quite a contrast to the experience of almost any other village in this country in the past 20 years. The amendment is cautious and the noble Lord surrounds the prospect of development with every sort of condition, and I would have thought that his amendment could be supported.