Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing the government amendment, which concedes a princip...

My Lords, I support the amendment from the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, to which the right rever...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 312A in this group, which would insert a new clause with the ...

My Lords, I support Amendment 312A in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Best. I declare my interes...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville, ...

My Lords, this has been an interesting debate on a number of important amendments. It is, of cour...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords for having participated in this debate. A lot of inter...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

166: After Clause 75, insert the following new Cla...

My Lords, this group of amendments is important as it directly relates to one of the housing miss...

My Lords, Amendment 294, in my name and that of the noble Earl, Lord Devon, would oblige the Secr...

My Lords, I will address the four amendments in my name and that of my noble friend Lord Shipley ...

My Lords, I am speaking to Amendment 172A in my name, but I want to commend the breadth of what h...

My Lords, I offer Green support for the general direction of all of these amendments. I will atte...

My Lords, I will speak very briefly about saturation areas and Article 4 directives that already ...

My Lords, I will get the guilt off my shoulders through your Lordships’ provision of the confessi...

Before the noble Earl moves on to another point I raised, could I ask, through him, for the Minis...

I thank the noble Lord for his intervention, because that is exactly the point I am making about ...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Earl, Lord Lytton. I will speak briefly and narrow...

That was not me.

I beg the noble Lord’s pardon, but I heard those remarks made. I am simply saying that I do not b...

My Lords, a widow in Thoresby, in Nottinghamshire, is currently being evicted by the office of th...

Before the noble Lord sits down, perhaps he will indulge me for a second. I know he knows the are...

As reported in the last few days, the estate is saying to the local media that it does not have t...

My Lords, this group of amendments concerns second homes, holiday lets and empty properties. I de...

My Lords, perhaps I ought to start by saying that I am also not a vice-president of the LGA, seei...

Moved by

Baroness Hayman of Ullock

168B: Clause 76, page 85, line 14, at end insert—<...

My Lords, my Amendment 168B seeks to ensure that, in the case of a district council for which the...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 474. I am grateful to the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, for a...

My Lords, I totally agree with what the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton, said about his Ame...

My Lords, I was pleased to sign Amendment 474 tabled by the noble and learned Lord, Lord Etherton...

My Lords, my name appears on Amendment 428, together with that of my noble friend Lady Pinnock. I...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ullock, for setting out in Amendment 168B he...

I apologise to the Minister for interrupting her reply, but she seems to be listing all the ways ...

I think I explained to the noble Baroness that we went out for extensive review—the issue is that...

The Minister referred to, and I think the Government are relying upon, a 2021 review. What was th...

I am sorry; I cannot tell the noble and learned Lord that, but I will make sure that I look into ...

My Lords, I thank everyone who took part in the debate. I have two specific amendments in this gr...

Moved by

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage

173: Clause 77, page 86, line 23, at end insert...

My Lords, I come to this amendment with a deal of frustration about the clause being in the Bill ...

My Lords, I have given notice that I think Clause 77 should not stand part of the Bill. I thank t...

Raspberry Walk.

My noble friend suggests that Raspberry Close might be what we have as a future name. This provis...

Well, my Lords, follow that. After that devastating forensic analysis explaining exactly why Clau...

My Lords, I rise briefly to continue the absurdity that my noble friend Lord Stunell spoke about....

It is in the regulations.

Indeed. It continues

“where it is an alteration of a specified kind, it has any other suppo...

My Lords, in the interests of some balance, while I have no idea what Clause 77 is doing in the B...

Will the noble Baroness accept that I said that this clause was based on what Oliver Dowden said?...

It is true that I am not familiar with the 1907 Act in detail, if at all. It is also true that I ...

My Lords, before my noble friend responds to the debate, I want to ask a couple of questions. I d...

My Lords, I shall focus straightaway on the provisions of Clause 77 in the round, in response to ...

I totally follow the logic of what the Minister has just said, but would it not be the case that ...

The problem is that there are, I am advised, three Acts of Parliament that date from the early pa...

The 1907 Act is very clear. It is not antiquated or in any way there to be debated. The 1907 Act ...

Because it is a one-size-fits-all approach and our judgment is that that is not an appropriate pr...

The noble Earl is therefore saying that in one street it could be 51% and, in another street, may...

We cannot, at this stage, prescribe particular percentages to particular situations. This is to b...

I am grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part. I thought this would be quite a short debat...

I do not think the noble Baroness has understood the issue. This has everything to do with devolu...

Well, I think that regulating to the extent of telling where signs can be put and whether they sh...