Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill

My Lords, I rise to support this group of government amendments aimed at increasing the number of...

My Lords, these amendments support moves that will enable self and custom build, as the noble Lor...

I thank the Minister for introducing these government amendments. We have no problem at all with ...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Best, and both noble Baronesses, for their commen...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

281CB: Clause 115, page 148, line 30, at end inser...

Moved by

Lord Moylan

284: After Clause 120, insert the following new Clause—

“D...

My Lords, I declare my interest as a member of the board of the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation...

My Lords, I give three-quarters support—I was going to say half-hearted support—to what the noble...

I will come in very briefly. I certainly see the point of the amendment tabled by the noble Lord,...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Moylan, for his amendment and for enabling a short debate ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend Lord Moylan for tabling Amendment 284. I shall not be commentin...

I thank the noble Baroness for a very helpful answer. Will she say something about the actual tim...

I do not have a timescale tonight, but I will talk to Minister Rowley and try to get one for the ...

My Lords, I am grateful to noble Lords who have taken part in this short debate. I shall start br...

It will look at cross-cutting issues on projects but cannot get involved with the specifics of a ...

I am grateful for that but, thanks to a judgment—I cannot remember the name—in the courts a year ...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

285A: After Clause 122, insert the following new C...

My Lords, planning appeals are currently decided by three potential routes: written representatio...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for introducing these three amendments, which enable planning appe...

My Lords, I know it is not the practice in your Lordships’ House to have long discussions on gove...

Let me respond to a couple of those points. On the difference between a case officer and a planni...

My understanding, then, is that in the instance of a local plan hearing, the local planning autho...

Yes.

I therefore seek assurance that those members of the public—and in some cases members of the coun...

That is exactly what I was saying. Although the decision would be made by the inspector, it would...

Moved by

Lord Stunell

285AA: Clause 123, page 156, line 37, leave out lines 37 to 39 ...

I speak to Amendment 285AA, which refers to Clause 123. It is by way of a probing amendment, and ...

My Lords, I declare my interests in farming and land ownership as set out in the register. I agre...

My Lords, regarding Clause 123, we believe that this provision was added to the Bill subsequent t...

My Lords, I have listened carefully to the concerns expressed by the noble Lords, Lord Stunell an...

I thank the noble Earl for giving way. The provision in Clause 123(4) says:

“For the purpos...

Consolidation in this area of the law is immensely complex. Frankly, we do not know the full exte...

My apologies, but if it is that complex, is it not more likely that mistakes could be made, makin...

The noble Baroness should not be concerned, if I may suggest, as I shall go on to try to explain,...

I thank the noble Earl for taking us through what for some of us is a kind of grade 1 learning ex...

I am sorry to hear that. The point I was seeking to make is that the general public need to trust...

I am sorry to keep pursuing this point but it is really very important indeed. Any of us who has ...

As I said, the exercise is an enormous one. It requires legal brains to get their heads around th...

My Lords, I have listened with great care to my noble friend. I understand about consolidation an...

Consolidation by definition does not extend to changing the policy effect of legislation.

My Lords, I think the noble Earl will have detected a degree of unease right around the Chamber a...

Moved by

Baroness Scott of Bybrook

285B: After Clause 123, insert the following new C...

Moved by

Baroness Pinnock

288: After Clause 123, insert the following new Clause—

My Lords, we have discussed for many hours now the importance of a plan-led process and the outco...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, for introducing her amendment and indeed for ...

My Lords, I thank noble Lords for that debate. Short it may have been, but it was full of some in...

My Lords, I thank particularly the noble Baroness, Lady Hayman, for her full-hearted support for ...

Moved by

Baroness Jones of Whitchurch

289: After Clause 123, insert the following new...

My Lords, in the absence of the noble Lord, Lord Randall, who is unable to be here, sadly, as he ...

My Lords, I thank my noble friend for introducing the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Ra...

My Lords, I am sure my noble friend Lord Harlech agrees with me that the idea behind these amendm...

My Lords, my noble friend Lady Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville was unable to remain in your Lor...

My Lords, as this is the first time I have spoken in Committee on the Bill, it is probably approp...

My Lords, I thank all noble Lords who have added their support, and the noble Earl, Lord Caithnes...