Neighbourhood Planning Bill

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 39, to which I added my name. I also support the thrust of wh...

My Lords, I must declare my various interests in this area: as the founder and chairman of Cobra ...

My Lords, Amendments 35 and 39 were debated extensively in the other place. They relate to planni...

My Lords, pubs, as we realise, arouse strong emotions. We had a lengthy debate on this topic in C...

Will my noble friend give way? He said that no pubs are closing because of the changes to permitt...

I certainly cannot. There are 37,000 pubs in the country and I am not able to stand here and say ...

I thank the noble Lord for giving way. I made the point about pubs increasingly offering food. Th...

I hear what the noble Lord says. Actually, I am not sure that the British Beer and Pub Associatio...

My Lords, I am very interested to hear the noble Lord, Lord Hodgson, for once sticking up for the...

Just to be clear, I support keeping pubs open and I support people’s property rights.

My Lords, I am sorry to interrupt the noble Lord, but I remind him that this is Report. If he has...

My question is: is the noble Lord now questioning property rights for individuals? If someone has...

There are many types of property in this country that have different constraints on them, and fro...

My Lords, I spoke briefly on this in Committee and I will not weary your Lordships by repeating w...

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

I spoke very briefly in Committee in support of this amendment, and I would like to do the same a...

My Lords, I agree very much with what the noble Lord, Lord Framlingham, has just said. There is a...

My Lords, I support the amendment. Of course, pubs have to be closed where there is no business. ...

My Lords, my name is attached to this amendment. I have no interest to declare in every sense of ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in this debate, in which there has been a gre...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have spoken in this debate. I am very grateful to them all....

Moved by

Baroness Gardner of Parkes

38: After Clause 13, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, I have brought this amendment back in exactly the same form it had in Committee because...

My Lords, this matter was debated briefly in Committee. I made the point then that I had a good d...

My Lords, I draw attention to my interest as a councillor in the borough of Kirklees and as a vic...

My Lords, having listened to the debate, I will intervene briefly because this issue goes back a ...

My Lords, it is 43 years since I was on a planning committee and I am sure that the law has chang...

My Lords, I very much agree with what has been said and thank my noble friend Lady Gardner for ta...

My Lords, I should declare an interest as an honorary officer of the Campaign for National Parks....

My Lords, I thank noble Lords who have participated in this debate on Amendment 38. I particularl...

My Lords, I thank those who have spoken. I have been very impressed by how clear they have been a...

My Lords, I shall respond to my noble friend’s suggestion. There is certainly no intention to pos...

I thank the Minister for that undertaking, which is very valuable. It is up to us now, particular...

Moved by

Baroness Young of Old Scone

38A: After Clause 13, insert the following new C...

My Lords, I draw the attention of the House to my chairmanship of the Woodland Trust and my inter...

My Lords, I support the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Young of Old Scone. I think the w...

My Lords, I am very attracted to the amendment. I agree with everything that I have heard, and I ...

I am very glad to support my noble friend in this amendment. She has put the case admirably this ...

My Lords, in Committee we heard powerful arguments both for retaining veteran and ancient woodlan...

My Lords, from these Benches, I support the intent behind this welcome amendment. I too thank the...

My Lords, I could not agree more with the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter. There is a strong argum...

I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Young of Old Scone, for her kind words and for raising again the...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who spoke so helpfully and supportively in this debate. It is w...

Moved by

Lord True

38B: After Clause 13, insert the following new Clause—

“Loca...

My Lords, I apologise for bringing new material before the House at this stage of the Bill, thoug...

My Lords, I have added my name to the amendment of the noble Lord, Lord True, and, once again, I ...

My Lords, I support the amendment and declare my interests in the register as chairman of the Loc...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly because I want to ensure that the noble Lord, Lord True, can ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lords who have participated in the debate on this important amendment...

That was a very gracious response. Obviously, I want to study carefully what my noble friend has ...

Moved by

Lord Young of Cookham

41: Clause 16, page 16, line 30, leave out subsection ...

My Lords, the co-pilot is back in charge and I am hoping for a smoother flight than the one I had...

My Lords, this speech will be shorter than that given by the noble Lord, Lord Young, and this spe...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for all that he said about compulsory purchase, both temporary and...

My Lords, I was unfortunately unable to attend the Committee stage on the Bill because it clashed...

My Lords, I sincerely thank the Minister for the consideration that he and the ministerial team h...

I am grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in this debate, particularly to those who we...

The Minister talks about its value, but its value prior to the planner signing it off and designa...

The compensation is based on the existing use value. Sometimes that might have a hope value, and ...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

50B: Clause 21, page 19, line 38, leave out “to t...

Moved by

Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth

51: Clause 24, page 22, line 27, at end insert—