Growth and Infrastructure Bill

My Lords, I shall speak also to Amendments 3 and 14, which we have in this group. I can be brief ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for introducing these amendments. I will move the government ame...

My Lords, I agree with my noble friend Lord McKenzie’s inference from the responses to the consul...

My Lords, I speak in support Amendment 10 in the names of the noble Baroness, Lady Whitaker, and ...

My Lords, I intervene very briefly to say that I very much welcome the amendments that my noble f...

My Lords, I hesitate to take exception to any remark made by my noble friend, who I have admired ...

My Lords, as this is the first time I have spoken at this stage I, too, must again declare my int...

My Lords, we are running slightly out of order so, with the leave of the House, I will speak now ...

If thank my noble friend for giving way. I absolutely did not make that suggestion and certainly ...

I apologise for missing the fact that this was an aside. I will not take it any further, other th...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response to the amendments and for moving the Government’s...

Moved by

Lord Tope

2: Clause 1, page 1, line 10, at end insert—

“(aa) the local...

Amendment 2 will have the effect of giving a 12-month period between a local planning authority b...

My Lords, we heard from the noble Lord, Lord Tope, in Committee on a similar amendment proposing ...

I thank both noble Lords for these amendments, which, as I have said, open up the discussions on ...

My Lords, will the noble Baroness clarify the position at the start of the process? The first rou...

My Lords, I have two bits of comfort, if I can voice it like that. First, I think that local auth...

My Lords, I am very grateful to the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, for his support so far and I am gr...

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

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

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

5: Clause 1, page 2, line 33, at end insert—

“(...

My Lords, this amendment is entirely consistent with Amendment 13, which I trust I will be able t...

My Lords, I have an amendment in this group, which the noble Lord, Lord McKenzie, has effectively...

My Lords, I remind the House that I have declared an interest as someone helping people through a...

My Lords, my noble friend Lord Shipley and I have added our names to Amendment 13, to which the n...

My Lords, I hope I can be reassuring on all the aspects that have been raised. We are fully aware...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response and for moving her own amendments. Clearly we sup...

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

7: Clause 1, page 2, line 44, at end insert—

“62B Desi...

Moved by

Lord Judd

9: Clause 1, page 3, line 1, at end insert—

“(e) the Nationa...

My Lords, perhaps it is appropriate at this stage in our proceedings that I remind the House that...

My Lords, I hope very much that my noble friend will resist this proposition. It seems to me to b...

I did not intend to intervene in this debate. I normally find myself in agreement with the noble ...

I thank the noble Lord for taking the opportunity to find a disagreement between us because we ar...

In my experience, they very rarely get it wrong. My point was simply that if the Secretary of Sta...

My Lords, I remind noble Lords that we are on Report and, under the convention in the Companion, ...

My Lords, I speak in favour of Amendment 9 in support of my noble friend Lord Judd, who so effect...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for their interesting interventions on this interesting amendment, ...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for the characteristically friendly candour with which she has rep...

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

11: Clause 1, page 3, leave out lines 4 to 7

12: Claus...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

16: Clause 1, page 3, line 10, at end insert—

“...

My Lords, I shall be brief. If Clause 1 stays in the Bill, and we hope that it does not, then the...

My Lords, I have no difficulty with the suggestion that we should keep the implementation and imp...

My Lords, I thank the Minister. I anticipated that that was what she might say in response to thi...

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

17: Clause 1, page 3, line 10, at end insert—

“62C Not...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

18: Clause 1, leave out Clause 1

My Lords, this amendment would remove Clause 1 from the Bill. I acknowledge that the Government h...

My Lords, I endorse my noble friend’s amendment and refer for the third or fourth time to what us...

My Lords, I am certain that my noble friend will not succumb to the blandishments of the noble Lo...

My Lords, I hope that my noble friend will stand firm. If legislation is important and necessary,...

My Lords, I remain uncertain as to the value of this clause but I am clear that the Government, p...

My Lords, I am inclined to agree with the noble Lord, Lord Deben, but then to speculate that if t...

My Lords, I think my noble friends Lord True and Lord Tope for their encouraging words and for th...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have participated in the discussion and thank my noble frie...

Moved by

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

19: Schedule 1, page 38, line 37, after “71” insert ...

Moved by

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

21: After Clause 4, insert the following new Clause—...

My Lords, during the debate in Committee on permitted development rights, a subject to which we s...

My Lords, we are content with the amendment.

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

22: Clause 6, page 6, line 5, at end insert—

“(...

My Lords, the intent of the amendment would be to restrict the application of the provisions rela...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendment 22, which was prepared by the Local Government Associ...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 28. I strongly support Amendment 22 and the principle behind ...

My Lords, I should like to explain the purpose and operation of the sun-setting amendment, Amendm...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her response. I also thank the noble Lord, Lord Best, for his ...

Moved by

Lord Shipley

23: Clause 6, page 6, line 15, at end insert—

“(2A) An au...

My Lords, I declare my vice-presidency of the Local Government Association.

This amendment ...

My noble friend Lord Shipley has raised an interesting issue, which has been raised at earlier st...

My Lords, we received the draft viability guidance late last night, which was not particularly he...

My Lords, I think that it is explanations that are asked for rather than anything else. I was ask...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for her reply and for her explanation. I am sure that we share the...

Moved by

Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon

24: Clause 6, page 7, line 10, after “to” insert “—<...

My Lords, these amendments set out procedural steps to reflect the existing mayoral planning powe...

I very much welcome these amendments. I thank the Minister for listening, hearing and acting.

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

25: Clause 6, page 7, line 10, leave out “guidance is...

My Lords, I turn again to the tardiness of the criteria. The noble Baroness may have been able to...

Have we reached my amendments? No? I did not think that I had missed my cue.

My Lords, I apologise. I always manage to do this once, sometimes more than once. Perhaps we can ...

I am grateful to the Minister for that reply. I certainly propose to withdraw the amendment. I am...

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

26: Clause 6, page 7, line 10, at end insert “, and

(b...

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

29: Clause 6, page 8, line 5, at end insert—

“106BAA D...

Moved by

Lord Best

30: Clause 6, page 9, line 13, at end insert—

“( ) the modif...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 30, 31 and 35. I preface my remarks by thanking the Ministe...

Before the noble Lord sits down, may I ask a question because there is something I do not underst...

These cases are historic, dating back to 2008-09, where a Section 106 agreement has been signed t...

My Lords, I support the amendment so ably moved by the noble Lord, Lord Best, and would like to s...

I wonder whether my noble friend could help me. It may be that I am extremely stupid about this, ...

My Lords, I am grateful for my noble friend’s intervention. The Minister will be in a better posi...

My Lords, there is a certain amount of misunderstanding arising in this situation. As I understan...

My Lords, there is an issue here. I do not actually like the way proposed by the noble Lord, Lord...

My Lords, we need to be a little careful about Report stage rules.

My Lords, we support Amendment 31; indeed, I have added my name to it. Compelling early undertaki...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for that debate. The noble Lord, Lord Best, explained clearly that ...

My Lords, I am very grateful for the debate that this has stimulated and for the interventions fr...

My Lords, before the noble Lord decides what he is going to do about this, I would like to air th...

My Lords, I need to answer this. The inspector will have the power to say that these developments...

My Lords, I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

32: Clause 6, page 10, line 1, leave out subsections (4) and...

Moved by

Baroness Hanham

33: Schedule 2, page 43, line 11, leave out “that sub-paragr...