Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

My Lords, I support the noble Baroness. The Malvern Hills are of course an outstanding place of b...

My Lords, I am grateful. The problem has a wider resonance than the Malvern Hills Trust, although...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for bringing this to our attention. As she knows, I know the...

My Lords, Amendments 178C and 509ZA, tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Stuart of Edgbaston, seek...

My Lords, I understand the Minister’s response, which seems to come in heavy on what is a pretty ...

If the noble Lord can wait one minute, I shall say what the Government are prepared to do.

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My Lords, I am grateful to the Minister for her response and grateful that the department is purs...

Moved by

Lord Ravensdale

179: Before Clause 78, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendment 179 in my name, which inserts a purpose of planning provisio...

My Lords, I will speak next as I have an amendment in this group. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Ra...

My Lords, I have added my name to Amendments 179 and 271 from the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale. I ...

My Lords, I was thrilled to add my name to my noble friend Lord Ravensdale’s Amendments 179 and 2...

My Lords, I think we all know that the planning system does not function very well at the moment....

My Lords, although perhaps I would not want to align myself with my friend’s sentiments about the...

My Lords, I support these amendments and I thank the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale, for bringing th...

My Lords, I totally agree with the amendments in this group and thank the noble Lord, Lord Ravens...

My Lords, Amendments 179 and 271 in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Ravensdale, seek to introduc...

I accept what the Minister said about the presumption in favour of sustainable development. She l...

My Lords, to begin with, I do not agree that local authorities across the UK are not taking net z...

I am grateful to the Minister for her response so far. Can she pick up the points that the noble ...

A number of pieces of legislation from a number of different areas of government and beyond have ...

The Minister said that everyone is moving in the same direction. Since the big building companies...

I have certainly had no conversations with those people, and I do not know whether the Housing Mi...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for a very illuminating debate. As the noble Baroness, Lady Jones, ...

Moved by

Lord Foster of Bath

180: Clause 78, page 88, line 9, at end insert—

“(...

My Lords, the amendments in this group cover the issues of data and data sharing for, as well as ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Foster of Bath, for his introductory remarks. He ...

Oh!

It had of course passed the Commons at that stage, and that may have been the cause of his confus...

My Lords, I support my noble friend Lord Moylan, who is the finest chair of the House of Lords Bu...

My Lords, I support Amendments 441, 443, 444 and 446 on the theme of short-term lettings, tabled ...

My Lords, I too support these amendments, particularly the lead amendment in this group, moved by...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, who was a member of the Built E...

My Lords, I am speaking as a former member of the Built Environment Committee; I was a member whe...

My Lords, in an earlier debate on these topics on Monday, we heard the noble Lord, Lord Foster, d...

May I just briefly say, as a matter of courtesy, that the reply to the letter that I referred to ...

I am grateful to the noble Lord for that clarification.

The noble Lord, Lord Moylan, set ou...

My Lords, I draw attention to my entry in the register as the owner of a second home in Pembrokes...

I should be grateful if the Minister could clarify a question that the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, a...

I will be coming to that in a moment.

Finally, I turn to Amendments 445, 445A, 445B and 447...

I appreciate what the Minister said about enforcement. It was in fact me who talked about that—no...

The noble Lord has made that point well and I will certainly take it back to the department, whic...

My Lords, I am grateful to all noble Lords who have taken part in the debate; I have certainly le...

My Lords, my amendment would remove Clause 79 from the Bill, and my noble friend Lady Taylor of S...

My Lords, I am pleased to speak on this group, and I will speak also to my Amendment 181 to Claus...

As a Scot by birth living in England, I support my noble friend the Duke of Montrose in his Amend...

My Lords, Part 3, Chapter 1 of the Bill, entitled “Planning Data”, asks more questions than it an...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman of Ullock, for her valuable contribution to thi...

My Lords, I apologise for interrupting. I wonder whether the Minister has any statistics about th...

We believe the problem to be quite considerable. I do not have statistics in front of me, but I w...

On that point, it would be incredibly useful to have some sort of evidence base for us to conside...

Yes. These clauses have not just been dreamed up out of the blue.

I am sure that they have not.

We have received representations from a number of local authorities on the difficulties that they...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for giving way. I was much encouraged by his suggestion earlier...

I take my noble friend’s point. The point that I sought to make was that, of course, the outcome ...

I thank the noble Earl very much for that information. The danger then is that, if an old softwar...

That is a very relevant point. The point that has been made to us quite forcefully is that a lot ...

In his normal calm and reassuring way, the Minister pointed out on Clause 81 that there may be so...

I simply come back to the point I am trying to emphasise, which is that the watchword here is col...

That is impossible given how Clause 81 is written, because it makes provision for

“restrict...

I can only supplement what the Bill says by saying that we do not intend to introduce any require...

My Lords, I thank everyone who has taken part in the debate. I thank the Minister for his customa...

Through the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, I apologise for any misspeak that I may have committed. ...

Moved by

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage

183: Clause 85, page 94, line 8, at end insert—...

My Lords, as we begin our discussions on the detail of the planning section of the Levelling-up a...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendments 184A and 187A in my name and that of my noble friend Lord La...