Marine and Coastal Access Bill [HL]

As information has reached me on that matter, perhaps I may inform the Committee that Section 36 of the Town and Country Planning Act, entitled ““Local plans””, states: "““In formulating their proposals in a local plan the local planning authority shall have regard to any information and any other considerations which appear to them to be relevant or which may be prescribed or which the Secretary of State may in any particular case direct them to take into account””." The important words are ““shall have regard””. Section 46, on the certificate of conformity, states: "““The proposals in a local plan shall be in general conformity with the structure plan””." If the noble Baroness presses me to define what is meant by that, I will struggle.