I do not dispute that. I say again that I have nothing against community engagement—in fact, I positively encourage it for all the reasons the noble Lord, Lord Teverson, has outlined. As I said, it clearly helps people to move forward with renewable energy. I am simply saying that this approach is very narrow and that it inevitably puts an administrative burden on to a certain class of developers which does not apply to other developers. That is my concern. I am sure that we will talk about these issues in the next group of amendments. I do not think that I am wrong to express a healthy degree of cynicism and I am glad that I tabled these probing amendments so that we could have this debate. It is now on the record, so let us see how we get on. I am sure that it is something which will evolve over time. I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.
Infrastructure Bill [HL]
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Worthington
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 22 July 2014.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee proceeding on Infrastructure Bill [HL].
Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
755 c393GC 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords Grand Committee
Subjects
Librarians' tools
Timestamp
2021-10-12 15:48:50 +0100
URI
http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Lords/2014-07-22/14072274000059
In Indexing
http://indexing.parliament.uk/Content/Edit/1?uri=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Lords/2014-07-22/14072274000059
In Solr
https://search.parliament.uk/claw/solr/?id=http://hansard.intranet.data.parliament.uk/Lords/2014-07-22/14072274000059