Localism Bill

53: After Clause 140, insert the following new Clause— ““Local authority, statutory undertakers’ and National Trust land (1) The Planning Act 2008 is amended as follows. (2) In section 128(3) (order authorising compulsory acquisition of local authority or statutory undertakers’ land subject to special parliamentary procedure if representation made by the authority or statutory undertakers and not withdrawn)— (a) after paragraph (a) (but before the ““and”” at the end of that paragraph) insert— ““(aa) the representation contains an objection to the compulsory acquisition of the land,””, and (b) in paragraph (b) (condition that representation has not been withdrawn) for ““representation”” substitute ““objection””. (3) In section 130(3) (order authorising compulsory acquisition of certain National Trust land subject to special parliamentary procedure if representation made by National Trust and not withdrawn)— (a) after paragraph (a) (but before the ““and”” at the end of that paragraph) insert— ““(aa) the representation contains an objection to the compulsory acquisition of the land,””, and (b) in paragraph (b) (condition that representation has not been withdrawn) for ““representation”” substitute ““objection””.””