Growth and Infrastructure Bill

That is very helpful, but can we just be clear on the consequence? Notwithstanding that it might ...

I am saying that an authority could put that forward and have it taken into account. Whether it w...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

3: Clause 1, page 1, line 11, at beginning insert “su...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 5 and 25 in this group. These amendments would preclud...

My Lords, Amendment 6 stands in my name and has been suggested by both the Local Government Assoc...

My Lords, is 20 years a reasonable period? The point has already been made in debate that there i...

My Lords, I apologise that I missed the speech by the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie. He was moving an...

My Lords, on this occasion I hope that the Minister will not accept any of these amendments becau...

My Lords, before the Minister responds, may I respond briefly to the noble Lord, Lord Beecham? He...

My Lords, I wonder if I can respond very briefly to the noble Lord, Lord Deben. Surely it is the ...

The fact of the matter is that this table is about decisions, not applications. The decisions may...

My Lords, when Amendment 6 —which was spoken to by the noble Lord, Lord Tope— was debated in the ...

It would achieve your objective.

Indeed. My point was going to be that if this is a way of wrecking the clause, I am all in favour...

On this amendment I shall satisfy my noble friend Lord Deben and practically nobody else because ...

The table I have is headed “total major decisions” not “total major approvals”. This need clarify...

I entirely recognise that they were both approved and not approved. They were decisions.

My Lords, I think we have debated this group sufficiently. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment....

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

4: Clause 1, page 1, line 14, leave out from second “...

My Lords, under new Section 62A, an applicant can bypass the local planning authority and make an...

My Lords, as the noble Lord said, I have tabled an amendment with exactly the same effect as his;...

My Lords, I am happy to clarify the question of the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, immediately: it doe...

I am grateful to the noble Baroness for that response. We look forward to further discussion on t...

My Lords, I think that it would be the Planning Inspectorate, but nods and winks from over there ...

My Lords, while the noble Baroness is writing to us, can she also give us the statistics that hav...

I do not. I will do my best.

My Lords, again, I am grateful to the Minister and beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Lord Greaves

10: Clause 1, page 2, leave out lines 10 and 11

My Lords, this amendment is about connected applications, which are dealt with in Clause 1(3). I ...

My Lords, we have Amendments 11 and 17 in this group. Amendment 11 refers to circumstances where ...

My Lords, I need to start by explaining why we have made provision for connected applications in ...

My Lords, I think I have got the answer that I was seeking on the “may/must” issue: the Secretary...

My Lords, there is always a danger in being clever. I found a briefing note about the extra provi...

I asked about what will happen when further minor applications or advertisement consents come up—...

I apologise for that. I was getting the small things right. They would be new applications and th...

Perhaps the Minister would include that in her clarification letter. Clearly, if the authority is...

My understanding is that any fresh application, even one which is associated with a development, ...

We could go on talking about this for a while but I think that it would be better to clarify it o...

Moved by

Lord Greaves

13: Clause 1, page 2, line 29, leave out “and”

My Lords, Amendment 13 and this group of amendments are about money and the extent to which local...

My Lords, we have Amendments 20, 21, 22 and 24 in this group. Amendment 24 simply requires the Se...

My Lords, I understand and agree with the intention behind Amendments 13 and 14. We have no argum...

I am sorry to interrupt the noble Baroness. She referred to the grant made available to local aut...

My Lords, I think that I am talking about just the main local grant that comes with the formula g...

My Lords, there used to be something called the planning performance grant, but my understanding ...

Before the noble Lord withdraws the amendment, perhaps I may follow his point about the extent of...

My Lords, the question of whether the Section 106 procedure is carried out by the local authority...

That would be helpful. The noble Baroness has prompted another thought: will the discharge of con...

Local residents will of course have the same right to put their representations directly to the P...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, has raised some extremely important issues. Perhaps this...

Before the noble Lord withdraws his amendment, I need to correct what I said so that we are absol...

My Lords, this gets a bit more mysterious. The decision on whether or not to grant planning permi...

Moved by

Lord Greaves

15: Clause 1, page 2, line 30, at end insert—

“( ) Where ...

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 30 and 31. Again, the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, has a...

My Lords, we have Amendments 16 and 18 in this group; I will start in reverse order with Amendmen...

This is an important series of amendments because they bear on the very issue that we have all ra...

I added my name to this amendment not least because it was originally drafted by the National Ass...

I have been trying to make it clear all the way through this afternoon and evening that, when the...

Will the Minister confirm that the current standard arrangements for consultation involve the pre...

Every local authority has its own methods, which must fall within the statutory consultation proc...

My Lords, I am grateful to a number of speakers who took part in this debate. I am grateful to th...

In relation to the consultation, the response was frankly a bit thin. This is an issue that we ne...

I will give the noble Lord a response, but I may have to change it. My instinct is to say that th...

My Lords, that was a very interesting dialogue. Most of the things that the Planning Inspectorate...

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

Clarity is very important on this matter. Will the noble Baroness undertake that the DWP guidance...

Moved by

Lord Tope

1: Clause 1, page 1, line 8, at end insert—

“(za) the local ...

My Lords, I also declare interests as an honorary vice-president of the Local Government Associat...

I have already referred to two recommendations in the Select Committee’s report which I support. ...

My Lords, I start by declaring my interests. I have considerable sympathy with the points made by...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. I agree ...

If the Government are very happy to see local planning authorities supported through the LGA or w...

My Lords, this is a matter of view between us. Our view is that things will become clearer over t...

That will not be entirely the case. There are usually reasons why planning applications are delay...

My noble friend has greater experience than I have of putting forward legislation, and he will kn...

My Lords, Amendment 8, standing in my name, is in this group. It largely speaks for itself. It re...

My Lords, my Amendment 33 is in this group. I certainly support the amendment in the name of my n...

My Lords, on Amendment 29, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, I raised a point about the le...

My Lords, very briefly, I welcome what I think is a positive response from the Minister about loc...

My Lords, on the Motion to go into Committee, perhaps I may raise a concern of which I have given...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for giving me notice that he was going to raise this point. I al...

My Lords, I am not going to make a firm promise. As I have said, I will do my best to ensure that...

I am sorry to take the time of the House again but it is only right that I give the noble Barones...

I hear the noble Lord.

My Lords, in speaking to Amendment 1, I shall speak also to Amendment 32 in the name of my noble ...

My Lords, we have Amendments 36 and 37 in this group, which I shall come to in a moment. If I may...

My Lords, this is the first day of Committee and a new stage; according to the rules, I therefore...

My Lords—

My Lords, I am grateful to my successor as Secretary of State for the Environment a good many yea...

My noble friend is eloquent and has a very established knowledge of these matters. However, if it...

I am grateful to my noble friend for raising that point. I am sure that, like me, he has studied ...

The noble Lord referred to the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee report on Clause ...

My Lords, if that is the case, why does the Bill not say that designation is dependent upon poor ...

This is what consultation is about. I am sure the noble Lord has read the consultation paper. The...

The noble Lord raises an important question in asking whether the Government should sit back and ...

I understand the points being made by the noble Lord. The question of the pressures on local auth...

My Lords, I declare my interests as the chairman of a company that tries to help in terms of sust...

Would my noble friend be surprised to learn that his remarks about local plans and the delays to ...

I am extremely grateful to my noble friend. I feel supported and vindicated in the thrust of the ...

My Lords, I support the amendments spoken to by my noble friend Lord McKenzie this afternoon. Cla...

My Lords, I declare my interest as president of the Local Government Association. We are not actu...

My Lords, I must also declare an interest as leader of a London local council that is a planning ...

My Lords, I do not know whether to start replying to a Second Reading debate or to a clause stand...

My Lords—

I have barely got started.

Will the Minister tell us where in Clause 1 it says that the power is very constrained. It simply...

Being designated is a constraint because when we eventually get to it, the noble Lord will know t...

I am very grateful to my noble friend. I know that she is always very diligent in listening to th...

My Lords, you can also approach this matter from the standpoint that the planning authority has n...

I have sat through the whole debate and I keep asking myself a simple question: how can we be sur...

My Lords, that relates to the consultation, which we are moving on to in Amendment 2. Perhaps we ...

My noble friend rightly said that in a normal case, if a major application is not dealt with by t...

My Lords, the expectation is that the Planning Inspectorate will perform against the statutory cr...

Perhaps I may focus on one other point. Clearly, the criteria are going to be driven by the speed...

There is a very important point—it may be a new point. I understand that, where performance agree...

My Lords, before they are designated, local authorities will have the opportunity to explain, fir...

Would it not be better if that were set out in the Bill? If the Bill said, first, that the issue ...

A number of noble Lords asked whether we were going to have the Government’s response to the cons...

My noble friend would know what they are if he had read the consultation document, which, knowing...

My Lords, I am very grateful to all who have taken part in this debate over the past hour and a h...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 9, after “designated” inser...

My Lords, I shall also speak to Amendments 27, 28, 29 and 35 in the group. Amendments 2 and 35 ha...

Encouraged by the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, I will say something about Amendment 28. When I was ...

My Lords, I hope that the Minister will take all these amendments into account but will not go do...

My Lords, this is the first time I have spoken on this Bill and I have a number of interests to d...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their contributions on this amendment. Some of the ground was c...

In the consultation, it is suggested that the length of designation should be reviewed after a ye...