Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

My Lords, first, I declare an interest as a non-executive director of Natural Capital Research Lt...

My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, and the other cosignatories on putti...

My Lords, I declare my interest as in the register. I came in to listen to the noble Baroness, La...

My Lords, I too support these amendments. The noble Baronesses, Lady Parminter and Lady Willis, h...

My Lords, local nature recovery strategies are one of the triumphs of the Government’s Environmen...

My Lords, we have had some very powerful speeches in support of incorporating local nature recove...

My Lords, it has been a very good debate, and there clearly is a lot of support for the amendment...

My Lords, I start by wishing the noble Baroness, Lady Young of Old Scone, a speedy recovery, and ...

My Lords, I very much hope that my noble friend will reflect. As he started his remarks, I was bu...

I thank my noble friend for his wise intervention. We have come a very long way. Over a decade ag...

I am straying on to the next set of amendments, but the Minister made it very clear that, regardi...

As the noble Lord says, he is perhaps straying on to the next group. What we are concerned with h...

It was not a matter of the plans. The Minister has said that, as a matter of principle, the reaso...

There are over 200 clauses in the Bill, and what good legislation seeks to do is to achieve the r...

I thank the Minister for his remarks, and for the fact that he recognised the strength of feeling...

Moved by

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage

185A: Clause 86, page 94, leave out lines 28 to...

My Lords, the previous discussion highlighted some of the concerns we have about the contradictio...

My Lords, I have to inform your Lordships that, if this amendment is agreed to, I cannot call Ame...

My Lords, I want to speak to Amendments 186 and 187B in my name and that of my noble friend Lord ...

My Lords, I will speak particularly to Amendment 187, to which my noble friend Lady Jones of Moul...

My Lords, the main debate on the new plan hierarchy was clearly spelled out in this Chamber last ...

My Lords, I want to add a short footnote to the excellent speech made by my noble friend Lord Lan...

My Lords, this has been an excellent debate on the conflicts that will inevitably exist between t...

My Lords, I begin by addressing Amendments 185A and 192 in the names of the noble Baronesses, Lad...

I fear I was not clear enough about what I asked about last week and hoped to hear more about. Ch...

I am sorry. Obviously, I got the issue slightly wrong in the last debate. I thought that we were ...

I am sorry to interrupt again, but my point relates to having an up-to-date plan. My noble friend...

What I am trying to explain to noble Lords is that there should be no conflict because they deal ...

I just want to explore this further, if the Minister will agree to it. The question from the nobl...

The national development management policies are dealing with the top-level issues. The noble Bar...

My Lords, I am more confused than I was when the debate started. If there is no conflict, what is...

The point is to make clear that there is no conflict.

Amendment 193, tabled by the noble Ba...

My Lords, one of the problems that those of us who have been very involved in the planning system...

Moved by

Lord Crisp

188: After Clause 86, insert the following new Clause—

“Dut...

My Lords, in moving the amendment in my name, I am very grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Young o...

My Lords, Amendment 188, headed as it is by the noble Lords, Lord Crisp and Lord Young, sounds li...

My Lords, I shall speak to my Amendment 484. I thank my supporters: the noble Lords, Lord Best an...

My Lords, I rise to support Amendment 484 in the name of my noble friend Lord Ravensdale, which w...

My Lords, I support the noble Lord, Lord Crisp, in his amendments, and join the noble Lord, Lord ...

My Lords, I am glad that today we have the opportunity to consider the health and well-being dime...

My Lords, I declare my interest as co-chair of Peers for the Planet and the fact that I have a fa...

My Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Crisp, has put before the Committee a powerful programme, which is...

My Lords, I was pleased to add my name to Amendment 241 tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Young of C...

My Lords, I rise to support the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, but am ...

My Lords, I support all the amendments in this group. I particularly want to speak to Amendments ...

My Lords, I support all the amendments in the group and will speak briefly in favour of Amendment...

My Lords, I feel compelled to say, “Hear, hear”, every time a noble Lord gets up to speak on this...

My Lords, there appears to be a clear consensus across your Lordships’ House that we need to impr...

My Lords, I hope the Lords spiritual will forgive me for borrowing from their script, but I feel ...

My Lords, I have been listening to an excellent debate, and I just want to say one thing that rel...

My Lords, yesterday I had the privilege of walking along a body of water called Frenchman’s Creek...

My Lords, this has been a very important discussion—a very long discussion—with an awful lot for ...

My Lords, I declare my interest as the owner of let residential property. As we have heard, all t...

I really appreciate the detail that the Minister is going into but would he concede that these in...

I have already spoken for rather a long time. If I can add some further detail to what I have alr...

I want to make one point on the quality of building, in particular the safety of new-build homes....

I would love to tell the noble Baroness how that is to be done. I will consult my officials and d...

My Lords, there have been many tremendous debates in your Lordships’ Chamber, and this has certai...

Moved by

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage

196A: Clause 88, page 95, line 24, leave out “a...

My Lords, my Amendments 196A, 197 and 197A relate to implications from clauses in the Bill that i...

My Lords, I will speak in particular to Amendments 200 and 205 which are tabled in my name. I wil...

My Lords, it is a pleasure to follow 11 minutes of the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, explaining the a...

I wonder if my noble friend would accept that it sounds a bit odd to those of us who live in the ...

My Lords, how do I follow that? I will not, as it is dangerous territory.

This is a very in...

I am sorry to interrupt, but I think it is actually a bit simpler than that. The participating au...

My experience is that that was not quite how it worked. In West Yorkshire, Harrogate—which is jus...

My Lords, this group of amendments concerns strategic planning and spatial development strategies...

My noble friend has just said how much she wants the counties to be involved, but why can they no...

I disagree. The district councils, about which we have been hearing, are the planning authorities...

The county authority is the mineral planning authority, so how can we talk about spatial planning...

I do not think that there is a distinction. They can be, and will be, part of it. I am sure that ...

Before my noble friend moves on from this point about counties, can she confirm whether, when she...

I will take the point back and consider it further, because some important issues have been broug...

Before we move on from this topic, I will add another observation: the county members are the one...

I quite agree, and that is why I will take the point back and think further on it. As a county pe...

How does the Minister see the role of town and parish councils within all this? Clearly, they wil...

I foresee that their views would go up through the stages, and any good district council would as...

I am grateful to noble Lords for a good debate on these topics relating to spatial planning. They...

I think that is an important point. That is what I was saying: the Bill will not stop that; it wi...

I am grateful to the Minister for that reassurance.

We had some discussions around borders—...

Moved by

Baroness Taylor of Stevenage

198: After Clause 90, insert the following new ...

My Lords, I am sorry that we come to these amendments so late in the evening. Amendment 198 and t...

My Lords, I will contribute to this group in relation to the two amendments in my name and that o...

My Lords, I briefly follow-up on that question which the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, has left hangi...

My Lords, I will speak to Amendment 209 in the name of my noble friend Lord Lansley and myself bu...

My Lords, I have been trying not to get into a lot of the groups on the Bill but I regret not get...

My Lords, I was not going to speak, but the noble Lord, Lord Young, summed up one of the problems...

This is utter nonsense—absolute nonsense.

I appreciate that we disagree. I thought the point was that we would disagree well in Committee. ...

It is with trepidation that I follow the last two speakers, the noble Baronesses, Lady Jones and ...

My Lords, this group of amendments addresses local plans: the critical planning documents that lo...

My noble friend said that there was nothing in the Bill that stops local authorities specifying w...

I do not think that we have got to the NPPF yet. It is out for review, and let us see what is in ...

My point is that we know what the Government are proposing to say in the NPPF. The Bill is incons...

No, I am saying that we have not made that decision yet, but this is as it is in this part of the...

My Lords, once again I thank noble Lords for a very interesting debate on very important aspects ...