Reading new clauses 7 and 8 carefully, I am not sure they cover the situation to which the right hon. Gentleman has adverted. Briefly, in the Tettenhall area of my constituency, the local neighbourhood plan has a more than 50% turnout on a referendum in July 2014; the local neighbourhood plan goes through; there is then an application for a site called The Clockhouse; the local authority refuses planning permission; the case goes to the Planning Inspectorate in Bristol, which, in a 17-page decision, makes two brief references to the neighbourhood plan—and allows the appeal. Can the right hon. Gentleman assure me that new clauses 7 and 8 would deal with the local neighbourhood plan being overturned by the Planning Inspectorate in contradistinction to the planning authority—in this case, Wolverhampton City Council, which refused the application?
Neighbourhood Planning Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Rob Marris
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 13 December 2016.
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and
Legislative Grand Committee proceedings (HC) on Neighbourhood Planning Bill.
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