Neighbourhood Planning Bill

Government new clause 6 deals with the ability to claim compensation for temporary severance when...

New clause 3 calls for a comprehensive review of the entire compulsory purchase order process. Th...

I wish to speak to new clause 12 and amendments 26 and 27, which are in my name.

On new cla...

I apologise for missing the beginning of the debate—I was chairing a Select Committee.

You only missed one minute.

I am sure it was a very important and fascinating minute, Mr Deputy Speaker, particularly as the ...

Does the hon. Gentleman have any idea of the time limit? How long would it be before that measure...

We are putting the ball in the Government’s court in that regard. We have the commencement date f...

My hon. Friend rightly points out that the Government have agreed to the provisions, and therefor...

I entirely agree with my hon. Friend. I could not put it better and need not say more on that asp...

I understand the point the hon. Gentleman and the hon. Member for The Cotswolds (Geoffrey Clifton...

It is a one-way ratchet because it is designed to prevent somebody in a monopoly bargaining posit...

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Mr John Redwood!

I rise, Mr Deputy Speaker, to support—

I sounded shocked because I had not realised you were here at the beginning.

I was in at the beginning. I have come because this an important subject and I want to support my...

The right hon. Gentleman will be aware of the Housing and Planning Act 2016. This is the second t...

I think we have agreement. I am saying that this is a process of continuous review and incrementa...

This has been a short debate on a technical but important area of the Bill that cuts to the core ...

indicated assent.

My hon. Friend is nodding, and I hope he will therefore withdraw new clause 12.

My hon. Fri...

That is a helpful point. Could the Minister provide some assistance by way of guidance for acquir...

I am happy to look at that. I was just about say that the Government are not at present wholly pe...

I take it that the Minister is not ruling out returning to the matter if more evidence can be put...

As I think I have made clear, we want to proceed with the maximum possible consensus on the right...

When the Minister drafts that guidance, he may like to include the obvious point that if those wh...

My right hon. Friend makes a perfect point on which to end this section of the debate. The point ...

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

New clause 2—Planning Application...

I want to speak to new clause 1, tabled in my name and those of many hon. Members from across the...

I rise in support of my hon. Friend’s excellent proposal. He, like me, will be aware that for som...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. I could add that we also have planning frameworks and guidanc...

There are far more pubs and fast-food takeaways per square mile in poorer areas than betting shop...

I presume the hon. Gentleman has done an impact survey and a geographical study of the number of ...

Is it not also true that there is a traumatic impact on the children and families of those who sp...

Absolutely, we should be. A societal concern about this issue is about licensing, where we have t...

Can the hon. Gentleman give the House some idea of how many would be a reasonable number on a hig...

The right hon. Gentleman makes my point for me; he shows why this is a modest proposal, as it ask...

As the hon. Gentleman seems so concerned about evidence and facts, can he tell us whether the num...

The issue is not whether the number of betting shops is going up or down, but whether ordinary pe...

We are discussing a planning issue, and no doubt my hon. Friend will be aware that the density is...

Absolutely. The new clause asks the Government to provide clarity. It is not a prescriptive. It d...

I commend the hon. Gentleman for speaking quite a bit of sense. I do not often disagree with my h...

The hon. Gentleman is talking about the licensing aspect and the planning aspect. The answer is b...

I am sure that the House will be aware that the reason why local authorities very rarely use arti...

Absolutely. That returns to the point that I have just made, which is that we need clarity. The n...

I am still trying to learn how the measure would work. Is there a danger that, if it were adopted...

I reject that argument. It does not stand up. As I said, I shall seek to divide the House on new ...

I welcome the opportunity to talk about neighbourhood planning, not betting shops. I shall speak ...

Reading new clauses 7 and 8 carefully, I am not sure they cover the situation to which the right ...

It may be a weakness in these new clauses that they may not deal with a situation where the Plann...

Will my right hon. Friend just expand on that point? Why is he no longer in favour of abolishing ...

I am very glad to be pushed into a more moderate and Conservative position on this issue than the...

Has my right hon. Friend also come across cases, which I am now seeing, where the local plan clea...

Yes, my right hon. Friend makes the point very well.

The first way in which neighbourhood p...

My right hon. Friend is very good to give way on this matter. Does he agree that in mid-Sussex, w...

I strongly agree with my right hon. Friend. The actions and behaviour of developers in mid-Sussex...

Is my right hon. Friend aware that in its call for evidence in October 2015, the Local Government...

I am not proposing a moratorium, because I think it is essential that we build houses in this cou...

I very much agree with my right hon. Friend, as he knows, and he is making an impeccable defence ...

Yes, I agree with my right hon. Friend. The authorities should come forward with the plans. It is...

My right hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset (Sir Oliver Letwin) is absolutely right that it i...

I agree with my hon. Friend. I hope that if the Government are willing to listen to this argument...

My right hon. Friend is being most generous in allowing interventions. Does he have the problem t...

My right hon. and learned Friend puts the point incredibly well. That is exactly how developers a...

I apologise for troubling the House twice in one day, not least since I only very rarely interven...

I am fully supportive of, and sympathetic to, my right hon. Friend’s concerns about the 2016 Birm...

I am coming directly to that point, but let me go back to parsing, for the benefit of the House, ...

I congratulate my right hon. Friend on making a very cogent case. Does he accept that the reason ...

My hon. Friend puts the argument eloquently. That is exactly what my constituents feel. The west ...

I rise with three purposes, the first of which is to support my right hon. Friend the Member for ...

It may help the House and my right hon. Friend if I let him know that I have written today to the...

I am delighted to hear that. I wish I could be absolutely confident that the inspectorate will al...

I appreciate the right hon. Gentleman’s generous comments. The Government are taking forward lice...

I do not think this is the last chance anybody will have to reflect on the planning element, part...

indicated assent.

I see the Minister nodding and hope that, apart from my hon. Friend the Member for Shipley, we ca...

I am listening intently to the excellent speech of my right hon. Friend and neighbour. Does he ag...

My hon. Friend illustrates very well the point I am trying to make. There is actually perfect cla...

I know you have kindly expressed an interest in my occupational history previously, Mr Speaker. A...

None of what the hon. Gentleman says detracts from my central argument. The important point about...

I agree. I suspect that all candidates, including the Labour candidate, for the West Midlands Com...

My hon. Friend mentions that the Minister has said that a Bill is coming down the track, so I wou...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend, because that segues me nicely into the next and final section of...

I take my hon. Friend’s point that the Labour Government were responsible for bringing in the Gam...

I agree with my hon. Friend. We need to learn from our mistakes, just as I hope any Labour Member...

I begin by declaring an interest: for six years I have been honorary vice-president of the Local ...

I am listening carefully to my hon. Friend, and I do not want him to traduce the intention of the...

I pay tribute to the neighbourhood plans being produced by volunteers in my right hon. Friend’s c...

This may be my lack of understanding of planning matters, but can my hon. Friend explain how a Go...

My right hon. Friend makes a good point, but I am saying that we have less than benign financial ...

I rise to speak to new clause 2 tabled in my name and to support new clauses 7 and 8 tabled in th...

My hon. Friend is speaking for many of us whose councils are constantly abused by the disgraceful...

It becomes almost a war of attrition. The behaviour of developers appears to be designed to break...

The hon. Lady is my constituency neighbour. As we are in the same part of Cheshire, I can confirm...

That is the very reason that I tabled new clause 2. I wanted to give the Secretary of State an ad...

I agree with much of what my hon. Friend says. When she drew up her new clause, did she think abo...

I am grateful for my hon. Friend’s intervention. That seems a very strange case indeed. I am awar...

I should say in passing that I agree with my hon. Friend the Member for Eddisbury (Antoinette San...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

No, I am going to press on. I will take some interventions in a bit, but I will press on, because...

Would my hon. Friend prefer the word “clustering”? I know he did when he was an esteemed member o...

No, the new clause is all about being against betting shops. It is a solution looking for a probl...

What would be the hon. Gentleman’s comments on Channel 4’s exposés on “Dispatches” and on the BBC...

That bears no relation to the facts. We all know that people can make a hour-long TV programme an...

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I am going to press on if my hon. Friend does not mind.

These are the facts, whether people...

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Well, if the cap fits—I give way the hon. Gentleman.

I came here from a factory where I was on £10 an hour. I went straight from the factory into Parl...

It is a shame that the hon. Gentleman has become so detached from his roots, along with the rest ...

My hon. Friend misunderstood me. My point was that I do not have this problem in leafy West Dorse...

I will be interested to find out about my right hon. Friend’s habit of spending lots of time in i...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

No, I will not.

I did not come into Parliament to ban people from doing all the things that...

My hon. Friend is putting a very sincere argument. I know he holds these views sincerely and his ...

I am very grateful to my hon. Friend.

If people are not allowed to bet on a fixed odds bett...

I caution the hon. Gentleman on that point. I do not know what he did, but I remember that when I...

The problem with the hon. Gentleman’s argument is that smoking has gone down in this country ever...

Is it not correct to say that betting shop managers have an obligation to stop a gambler if they ...

The problem with that is something that used to be called competition, which the Conservative par...

Members might be relieved to know that I shall be extremely brief. I rise to speak to my amendmen...

My hon. Friend makes an important point. Most older people live outside London, and the demograph...

Absolutely. I see that particularly in my constituency of South Cambridgeshire, which has one of ...

My hon. Friend is making an important point about the affordability and accessibility of a proper...

My hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. This is all about thinking about things before...

I have been bullied by the Whips into making only a very short intervention, so I am not able to ...

Virtue.

Yes, virtue. They are great places to be, and they make a tremendous and important contribution t...

I am pleased to follow my right hon. Friend the Member for Mid Sussex (Sir Nicholas Soames). I ri...

Order. We have a few more speakers and there is another group to get through after this one. The ...

I rise to speak in support of new clauses 7 and 8, to which I have added my name, but I am spurre...

Does my hon. Friend agree that consultation is meaningless if the people consulted are then ignor...

That is what I am saying. Time and again, our constituents are being encouraged to produce neighb...

My hon. Friend describes a situation that I am sure we all recognise well. In my experience, many...

I do very much empathise with my hon. Friend’s concerns.

Another resident says that unless ...

It is a pleasure to participate in the debate, and with a mainly rural constituency, I felt I mus...

My hon. Friend is making a very important point. One of the things I have been horrified by in fo...

My right hon. Friend represents a beautiful constituency like mine and speaks eloquently, and I e...

It is a pleasure to take part in this debate and to speak briefly to new clause 1 and amendments ...

I am grateful to catch your eye, Mr Deputy Speaker. So troublesome am I that three Whips, includi...

It is in your hands.

It is in my hands. The Whips will see whether their spell has worked.

I start by welcoming ...

Given the lateness of the hour, even though we have a number of amendments in this group, I will ...

In contrast with the first group of amendments, where we had a short debate on technical issues, ...

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I will not take an intervention now, as I am conscious of the time. What I will say to the hon. G...

Given the Minister’s eloquent defence of the green belt from the Dispatch Box, can he explain to ...

As I said, there is independent examination whenever a local authority seeks to review green-belt...

Nevertheless, there was no consultation of the 100,000 people in Sutton Coldfield—at least, the c...

I was going to come to that issue when I came to my right hon. Friend’s second new clause. Since ...

I beg to move, That the clause be read a Second time.

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

New clause 10—Funding for local a...

I will speak to new clause 9, tabled by the hon. Member for Leeds North West (Greg Mulholland), b...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

If the right hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I will not, as I am very short of time. I might a bi...

I am grateful to the hon. Lady. My question goes back to her first amendment on pubs. Does she no...

We are not against a change of use for a pub; we are against the fact that that change goes throu...

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I will give way very briefly to the hon. Gentleman; he spoke for a long time earlier.

I am very sympathetic to pubs, and always voted on what we might call the pub side of the argumen...

When we are considering the future of a pub, it is really important that the local community has ...

I do not intend to trouble the House for long, but I want to focus on new clause 9. I am pleased ...

I thank the hon. Gentleman, who is my constituency neighbour, for making that point—I also thank ...

The hon. Gentleman makes a very good case, although as someone who worked for a supermarket chain...

I thank my colleagues on the save the pub all-party group, particularly the hon. Members for Brig...

The hon. Gentleman will be aware that the debate has to finish in just over 20 minutes’ time and ...

Of course we must hear from the Minister, but we need to hear the argument or people will not kno...

Order. I must tell the hon. Gentleman that I was mistaken and have misled him. There are only 11 ...

Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will speak for no more than a minute to conclude, because othe...

I rise as a member of the Campaign for Real Ale and one of the vice-chairmen of the all-party gro...

Will my hon. Friend give way?

I am afraid that I must continue.

Unfortunately, the new clause smacks a little of, “Someth...

I can be brief: I hope the Minister will resist amendment 14 entirely; clause 12 is an excellent ...

I start by congratulating my right hon. Friend the Member for West Dorset (Sir Oliver Letwin) on ...

Surely the Minister knows what the so-called British Beer and Pub Association is—it is the repres...

I am well aware of what the BBPA is, but I tend to take the approach that, when I see briefings, ...

The point I was making was that people should have access to viability assessments no matter wher...

The hon. Lady is entitled to hold that view, but I take a slightly more localist one. Local autho...

I will now suspend the House for no more than five minutes in order to make a decision about cert...

I can now inform the House of my decision about certification. For the purposes of Standing Order...

indicated assent.

The House forthwith resolved itself into the Legislative Grand Committee ...

I remind hon. Members that if there are Divisions, only Members representing constituencies in En...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read the Third time.

A lot of people across Westminster...

At this relatively late hour, I do not wish to delay the House for long.

Our position on Th...

I wish Ministers well with their Bill. One of its central purposes is one I strongly support—the ...

I hope the Front-Bench team will forgive me, but I could not pass up the opportunity to speak on ...