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National Planning Policy Framework

Debate on Tuesday, 24 April 2012, in the House of Commons, led by Greg Clark. The answering member was Roberta Blackman-Woods.

Debate on a motion that this House has considered the matter of the National Planning Policy Framework. Motion lapsed. [Relevant Documents: Oral and written evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee, on Sustainable Development in the National Planning Policy Framework, HC 1480; the Eighth Report from the Communities and Local Government Committee, on The National Planning Policy Framework, HC 1526, and the Government response, Cm 8322.]

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

543 c912-20

Session

2010-12

Department

Department for Communities and Local Government

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

The National Planning Policy Framework. Communities and Local Government Select Committee eighth report with formal minutes and evidence.
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Parliamentary committees
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Mark Pawsey | 543 c919 (Link to this contribution) Is my right hon. Friend encouraged, as I am, that although it was feared that neighbourhoods would n...

Greg Clark | 543 c919 (Link to this contribution) I do indeed, and that is not untypical. In the town of Thame, in the constituency of my Parliamentar...

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Sarah Wollaston | 543 c919 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Minister on an excellent consultation, which showed all Departments how it should...

Greg Clark | 543 c920 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. What Totnes does today, the rest of the country will do tomorrow...

Roberta Blackman-Woods | 543 c920 (Link to this contribution) Did the Minister receive letters of congratulation from planning lawyers?

Greg Clark | 543 c920 (Link to this contribution) Not especially, but I hope they will have time on their hands in future to engage in some retraining...

Julian Lewis | 543 c920 (Link to this contribution) On a point of order, Mr Speaker, of which I have given you notice. Very recently, in the course of a...

Greg Clark | 543 c918 (Link to this contribution) I met the Planning Inspectorate and almost all the planning inspectors who were in conference in Bri...

Gavin Shuker | 543 c919 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful to the Minister for allowing me to interrupt his long line of congratulation...

Greg Clark | 543 c918 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made a distinguished contribution to the debate. Modesty alone forbade me from in...

Martin Horwood | 543 c918 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Minister on all his congratulations, which are well deserved. When it comes to lo...

Greg Clark | 543 c916-7 (Link to this contribution) We do expect to see more homes delivered, and one feature of the previous system was that, despite h...

Andrew George | 543 c917 (Link to this contribution) On the future of the countryside, the Minister will be aware that the exceptions approach to housing...

Greg Clark | 543 c919 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. To have a localist approach and allow people to engage with the ...

Brandon Lewis | 543 c919 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for being so generous in allowing interventions. Has he found from talk...

Greg Clark | 543 c919 (Link to this contribution) I confess that I was not able to include a telegram from the Queen, but I understand that the Prince...

Duncan Hames | 543 c915 (Link to this contribution) Members have been quick to congratulate the Minister, as I do, on listening to the feedback that he ...

Greg Clark | 543 c915 (Link to this contribution) We have seen great enthusiasm on the part of councils, which have campaigned for as many years as ma...

Chris Heaton-Harris | 543 c915 (Link to this contribution) I am completely with my right hon. Friend on the consistent application of the plans, on the local p...

Greg Clark | 543 c915-6 (Link to this contribution) Part of the problem with the Planning Inspectorate is that, in the regime to date, it has been requi...

Lord Johnson of Marylebone | 543 c914 (Link to this contribution) Residents of Bromley are reassured by the reiteration of protections for the green belt, but can my ...

Greg Clark | 543 c914 (Link to this contribution) Yes, and I know how important that is in my hon. Friend's constituency.

Caroline Lucas | 543 c914 (Link to this contribution) This debate on the NPPF is timely, because the Public Administration Committee today highlighted the...

Greg Clark | 543 c914-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is absolutely right that, as we transfer power to local authorities, it is right to su...

Clive Betts | 543 c916 (Link to this contribution) The document that the Government have now produced is clearly an awful lot better than the draft, an...

Greg Clark | 543 c916 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way to the Chairman of the Communities and Local Government Committee and then make som...

Greg Clark | 543 c914 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. There were more than 1,000 pages of planning policy across 4...

David Simpson | 543 c914 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the Minister will agree that if we are to have efficient planning policy there needs ...

Greg Clark | 543 c914 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I am delighted to welcome a new convert to localism. I chided t...

Bob Russell | 543 c913 (Link to this contribution) What importance is to be attached to the protection of the natural environment, particularly where i...

Greg Clark | 543 c912 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to hear that from my hon. Friend. She is right in saying that the contribution of the...

Nick Raynsford | 543 c913 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister recognise that as a result of two years of almost unprecedented chaos and confusio...

Greg Clark | 543 c913 (Link to this contribution) Both points are of the utmost importance and were reflected by my hon. Friend in his contribution to...

Nick Raynsford | 543 c913 (Link to this contribution) No.

Greg Clark | 543 c913 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman, of whom I am fond, is confusing his own record with that of the Government...

Stuart Andrew | 543 c914 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that he probably inherited a planning system that meant that constit...

Greg Clark | 543 c913 (Link to this contribution) Another person who is keen not to be associated with the strategies—I understand that. The right hon...

Claire O'Neill | 543 c912 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will be aware that the postbag was bulging with representations from the consti...

Greg Clark | 543 c912 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of the National Planning Policy Framework."...

Greg Clark | 543 c917-8 (Link to this contribution) It certainly will be. What I did not say was that the National Housing Federation specifically comme...

Speaker | 543 c920 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his point of order and for his advance notice of his intenti...

Greg Mulholland | 543 c918 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. Friend is coming to this point, but as the chair of the all-party parli...

Subjects

Construction

Housing

Environment protection

Local government

Planning permission

Powers

Regional planning and development

Affordable housing

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