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Planning Bill

Debate on bills on Monday, 10 December 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Hazel Blears. The answering members were Lord Pickles and Lord Pickles.
Planning Bill. Second reading debate. Amendment negatived on division (215 to 281). Main question agreed to on division (276 to 212). Programme motion agreed to on division (309 to 152). Queen's recommendation signified. Money resolution agreed to on question. Ways and Means resolution agreed to on question.

About these Parliamentary proceedings

Reference

469 c25-135, (corrigendum) 574;469 c25-135 

Session

2007-08

Department

Department for Communities and Local Government

Legislative stage

Second reading

Procedure

Programme motions
Money resolutions
Ways and means resolutions
Queen's recommendation

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Related items

Planning Bill. Explanatory Notes Bill 11-EN also published.
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Bills
House of Commons

Proceeding contributions

Speaker | 469 c46 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the House that the 15-minute limit on speeches by Back Benchers operates from now.
Dan Rogerson | 469 c92 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely. My hon. Friend and I have discussed at length the odd situation in which we find ourselv...

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Martin Horwood | 469 c91-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point about the flaws in the unelected regional assembly process of ...
Dan Rogerson | 469 c91 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a point that other hon. Members raised during the debate, and he is right. ...
John Hayes | 469 c91 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right that, rather than acting as a catalyst for popular involvement, the Bill...
Dan Rogerson | 469 c90 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure and a challenge to follow the contribution of the hon. Member for Hayes and Harling...
John McDonnell | 469 c89-90 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the hon. Gentleman, but I am short of time. Any attempt to incorporate the aviation ...
Mark Prisk | 469 c97 (Link to this contribution) I begin by mentioning my entry on the Register of Members' Interests as a member of the Royal Instit...
Lord Deben | 469 c97 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that planning and the environment must be part of the same Department if w...
Dan Rogerson | 469 c93 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman refers to community land trusts and the provision of more affordable housing. He ...
Roberta Blackman-Woods | 469 c94-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for North Cornwall (Dan Rogerson). I agree with a number ...
Martin Horwood | 469 c106-8 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Rochford and Southend, East (James Duddridge) and to ...
James Duddridge | 469 c104-5 (Link to this contribution) There has indeed been a complete failure to recognise that. My right hon. Friend the Member for Suff...
Nia Griffith | 469 c100-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me to speak in the debate. I want to focus on a specific ...
Mark Prisk | 469 c98-100 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend shows his expertise in the subject and as a former Secretary of State, and he i...
Mark Prisk | 469 c103-4 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to stop my hon. Friend's flow, but he raises an important point. The experts that the Gov...
James Duddridge | 469 c102-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Llanelli (Nia Griffith), with whom I share a rather b...
David Curry | 469 c67-8 (Link to this contribution) It is somewhat surprising to range in a planning debate from Oliver Cromwell to Napoleon Bonaparte, ...
Lord Deben | 469 c60-2 (Link to this contribution) Happily, I did not appoint it and I did fire him, so that situation does not really arise. [Interrup...
Paul Truswell | 469 c62-5 (Link to this contribution) A number of Members throughout the House have already commented on the challenge posed by the planni...
Lord Deben | 469 c58-60 (Link to this contribution) I refer the House to the Register of Members' Interests and to the fact that I am vice-president of ...
Nick Raynsford | 469 c60 (Link to this contribution) When the right hon. Gentleman reflects on his period as Secretary of State, does he feel that his st...
Paul Truswell | 469 c65-7 (Link to this contribution) Sorry. It sounds as if my hon. Friend has had a number of constituency experiences that exactly refl...
Jeremy Corbyn | 469 c65 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend agree that there is a problem with applicants undertaking a great deal of consul...
Paul Truswell | 469 c65 (Link to this contribution) It sounds very much as if my right hon. Friend has had—
Nick Raynsford | 469 c56-7 (Link to this contribution) In my view, one of the benefits of the community infrastructure levy should be that it has wide appl...
David Burrowes | 469 c57 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
Nick Raynsford | 469 c57-8 (Link to this contribution) No, I will not. The hon. Gentleman will understand that I am time-limited. My confusion becomes eve...
Tom Brake | 469 c50-3 (Link to this contribution) I start by thanking the Secretary of State, who is no longer in her place, for briefing me and my ho...
Nick Raynsford | 469 c53-4 (Link to this contribution) At the outset, I draw attention to my interests as declared in the Register of Members' Interests. I...
Nick Raynsford | 469 c54-5 (Link to this contribution) I agree. The impact of schemes of regional or national significance on localities, and methods of fe...
Martin Horwood | 469 c55 (Link to this contribution) Is the right hon. Gentleman not concerned by some of the unprecedented powers of the commission, inc...
Nick Raynsford | 469 c55-6 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman had borne with me for a moment, he would have heard me make observations about...
Tom Brake | 469 c56 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is very experienced in these matters, and I wonder whether he has a persona...
John Hayes | 469 c89 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
John McDonnell | 469 c89 (Link to this contribution) That is a valid point. Will the individual members of the commission be independent? A lot will depe...
Lord Stunell | 469 c89 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is making a powerful argument. Does he agree that the central question, when all ...
David Leslie Taylor | 469 c87 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks persuasively about Heathrow, the largest passenger airport in the country. The...
John McDonnell | 469 c87-9 (Link to this contribution) Unless the Bill is amended significantly, I warn those hon. Members who may have a major potential d...
Lord Deben | 469 c86 (Link to this contribution) Would the hon. Gentleman care to comment on the fact that the report not only suggested the expansio...
John McDonnell | 469 c86-7 (Link to this contribution) Of course, Sir Rod Eddington came to it with a balanced view gained from his aviation background, an...
Hywel Williams | 469 c85-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for that point. That might very well be the case, and other hon. Members ...
John McDonnell | 469 c86 (Link to this contribution) This is an important Bill. I would not extend its importance as far back as Cromwell, as the right h...
Hywel Williams | 469 c82-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall concentrate my remarks on clause 5, on national policy statements, and clause 9, on sustaina...
John Hayes | 469 c85 (Link to this contribution) I have been listening carefully to the hon. Gentleman's contribution, and I am particularly interest...
Martin Horwood | 469 c79 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is quite right that we have enormous renewable energy resources. We certainly hav...
Desmond Turner | 469 c79 (Link to this contribution) We have heard a lot about respect for local democracy and communities' input into planning decisions...
Clive Betts | 469 c72-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the two major proposals that the Government are introducing: the different ways to deal wi...
Jeremy Corbyn | 469 c74 (Link to this contribution) On the question of section 106 payments, does my hon. Friend share my concern that they are often ne...
Clive Betts | 469 c74-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend's comments have a ring of truth, and I am sure that many hon. Members and people outs...
Lord Deben | 469 c68 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that there are issues to do with such locations even if we know whe...
David Curry | 469 c68 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is precisely such nuts-and-bolts issues that concern ou...
Mark Prisk | 469 c68-9 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for not having been present for some of the debate; I had Standing Committee business. M...
David Curry | 469 c69-71 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree. Any national policy on airports is in fact solely about Heathrow and Stansted. Any...
Emily Thornberry | 469 c40 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the hon. Gentleman will take the opportunity to patronise me as well. Given that the Opposit...
Lord Pickles | 469 c40 (Link to this contribution) That is how a reasoned amendment is worded. I am sure that, if the hon. Gentleman would like further...
Lord Pickles | 469 c40 (Link to this contribution) I agree with that and thought about using the quote in my speech. I obviously agree with my hon. Fri...
Paul Farrelly | 469 c41 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman give way once more?
Lord Pickles | 469 c41 (Link to this contribution) As my hon. Friend is a man of considerable expertise, I hesitate to disagree with him. I therefore a...
William Cash | 469 c41 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will have observed that the Secretary of State referred to consultation and the like....
Lord Pickles | 469 c40-1 (Link to this contribution) If I did patronise the hon. Lady, I should be amazed if she noticed. However, I thank her for her in...
Paul Farrelly | 469 c41 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for indulging me. I ask this question because, over Christmas or at any o...
Hazel Blears | 469 c37 (Link to this contribution) Is my hon. Friend referring to permitted development for solar panels and wind turbines?
Hazel Blears | 469 c37 (Link to this contribution) The Bill provides that planning permission for things such as wind turbines and solar panels will no...
John Robertson | 469 c37 (Link to this contribution) I mean anything to do with energy.
John Robertson | 469 c37 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has hit on one area that I was talking about. The other was nuclear power. If i...
Hazel Blears | 469 c37 (Link to this contribution) I shall give way again to my hon. Friend the Member for Glasgow, North-West (John Robertson), as I w...
Stewart Hosie | 469 c37-8 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is being generous in giving way. Following that exchange, can she confirm tha...
Hazel Blears | 469 c37 (Link to this contribution) I am clearer about my hon. Friend's question. In the national policy statement phase, there would be...
Lord Pickles | 469 c38-40 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, To leave out from ““That”” to the end of the Question, and add instead thereof:"that ...
Hazel Blears | 469 c38 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman is aware, planning decisions in Scotland are devolved, and there is no intenti...
Bob Spink | 469 c40 (Link to this contribution) May I add this quote from the Campaign to Protect Rural England? It says:"““We remain deeply concern...
Lord Pickles | 469 c45-6 (Link to this contribution) I draw the hon. Gentleman's attention to clause 187(1)(b), which states that only clauses 13 and 17 ...
Stewart Hosie | 469 c45 (Link to this contribution) There might be slightly more worrying problem than the one that the hon. Gentleman has identified of...
Lord Pickles | 469 c45 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is very excitable, God bless him. We were concerned about these constitutional chang...
Alistair Burt | 469 c45 (Link to this contribution) What is in your wallet—a clunking fist?
Lord Pickles | 469 c44-5 (Link to this contribution) Clearly, conservation areas must be protected. I thank my hon. Friend for giving me an opportunity t...
Speaker | 469 c50 (Link to this contribution) Order. I call Mr. Tom Brake.
John Leech | 469 c49 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the right hon. Gentleman's points. In my part of the country, we have the problem that ...
Keith Hill | 469 c46-9 (Link to this contribution) Whatever else one might say about the Bill, no one can challenge its scope and ambition. It ranges, ...
John Robertson | 469 c42 (Link to this contribution) I wonder if I might tweak the hon. Gentleman's memory and take him back to the Planning Act 1990, in...
Lord Pickles | 469 c42-3 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a reasoned point. Building on green belt is often less expensive than building ...
Bob Spink | 469 c42 (Link to this contribution) Does my hon. Friend share my concern that there is nothing in the Bill to ensure that all brown land...
Lord Pickles | 469 c41-2 (Link to this contribution) The answer is the same as the answer to the question of what the hon. Gentleman will get for Christm...
Robert Syms | 469 c44 (Link to this contribution) I was a little concerned that the Secretary of State talked about more freedoms but did not mention ...
Lord Pickles | 469 c43 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I will come on to that point but he is actually wrong about i...
Clive Betts | 469 c43 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman keeps repeating the assertion that the public are to be excluded from the process...
Lord Pickles | 469 c43-4 (Link to this contribution) I am so sorry that the hon. Gentleman seeks to make this matter partisan. I confess that I have perh...
Alan Whitehead | 469 c43 (Link to this contribution) It is my understanding that the Planning Bill will institute a single permission regime—I think that...
Hazel Blears | 469 c34 (Link to this contribution) No. If the hon. Gentleman has the opportunity to read the record of this debate, he will see that I ...
Lord Pickles | 469 c34 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State is being extremely generous in giving way, but these points are of immense im...
Hazel Blears | 469 c34 (Link to this contribution) All hon. Members will want to see something for the money that has been raised. I am trying to give ...
Hazel Blears | 469 c35 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. I know that Milton Keynes has been one of the forerunners in develo...
David Kidney | 469 c35 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend give way?
Hazel Blears | 469 c35 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that the Bill contains a number of provisions on tree preservation orders. ...
Paul Beresford | 469 c35 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Hazel Blears | 469 c35 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, but then I must get on.
David Kidney | 469 c35 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my right hon. Friend. She has spoken about the potential for a greener approach thr...
Alan Whitehead | 469 c36 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend mentions the question of local authority permissions for renewable devices on r...
Hazel Blears | 469 c35 (Link to this contribution) I want to make a little more progress, as I know that many hon. Members want to speak in the debate ...
Hazel Blears | 469 c36-7 (Link to this contribution) I want to get through more of my speech, if hon. Gentlemen do not mind. It is important to realise ...
Hazel Blears | 469 c36 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. As the Bill proceeds, we want to ensure that we enable peop...
John Robertson | 469 c37 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend was talking about planning permission. Where there is more than one type of equ...
Hazel Blears | 469 c32-3 (Link to this contribution) Yes, I can certainly reassure the hon. Gentleman that the levy will be determined by the local autho...
Mark Hoban | 469 c32 (Link to this contribution) Some 13,000 houses are expected to be built in my constituency over the next 20 years. That will gen...
Hazel Blears | 469 c32 (Link to this contribution) I am going to make a little more progress, because I am conscious of the time and other hon. Members...
Bob Spink | 469 c32 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State give way?
Hazel Blears | 469 c32 (Link to this contribution) As I expected, the right hon. Gentleman made a genuine and practical point. When he has a chance to ...
David Curry | 469 c31-2 (Link to this contribution) There is a significant distinction between a debate on a national policy statement, which, by defini...
Hazel Blears | 469 c31 (Link to this contribution) I give way to the right hon. Gentleman, for whom I have a great deal of respect.
Anne Main | 469 c33 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State for giving way. May I take her back a sentence or two, when she said ...
Clive Betts | 469 c33 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my right hon. Friend will accept that there is general support for the approach of th...
Hazel Blears | 469 c33 (Link to this contribution) That appears to have been quite provocative. I give way to my hon. Friend.
Lord Bellingham | 469 c33 (Link to this contribution) Before the right hon. Lady moves on—
Hazel Blears | 469 c33 (Link to this contribution) Yes, my hon. Friend is right. What we have in the Bill is the architecture for the scheme. We have c...
Hazel Blears | 469 c33-4 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady may be aware that there were proposals for a planning gain supplement, which is differ...
Hazel Blears | 469 c34 (Link to this contribution) I cannot resist the hon. Gentleman.
Lord Bellingham | 469 c34 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to the Secretary of State for giving way. Further to the excellent intervention b...
Hazel Blears | 469 c31 (Link to this contribution) I was happy to give way to the right hon. Gentleman. I stress that the decision-making process will ...
Mark Field | 469 c30 (Link to this contribution) The Secretary of State will understand that many hon. Members have great sympathy with the Governmen...
Hazel Blears | 469 c31 (Link to this contribution) No. I know that a range of hon. Members of all parties want the system to work better, be quicker an...
John McDonnell | 469 c30 (Link to this contribution) Will the Secretary of State clarify whether the national policy statements, which could define an in...
Hazel Blears | 469 c30 (Link to this contribution) It is not a matter for me as a member of the Government to dictate to Parliament how it should scrut...
Speaker | 469 c30 (Link to this contribution) Order. The hon. Lady is intervening in a debate. That is not an opportunity to read out a written sp...
Hazel Blears | 469 c30 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend, and I know that she takes a significant interest in these issues. T...
Hazel Blears | 469 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) Some of them would have been hybrid Bills because they impinged on private rights. The new system, I...
Emily Thornberry | 469 c30 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend ensure that the Planning Bill and the new Climate Change Bill will mesh to...
Lord Deben | 469 c31 (Link to this contribution) An application is likely to be made for a nuclear power station in my constituency. I would be in fa...
David Drew | 469 c28 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend will not be surprised to hear me say that the best armlock that the public coul...
Hazel Blears | 469 c28 (Link to this contribution) I know that my hon. Friend has been pursuing this issue assiduously for a considerable time. Under t...
William Cash | 469 c29 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Lady give way?
Hazel Blears | 469 c29 (Link to this contribution) I will give way, and then I shall get on to 1960.
Mark Prisk | 469 c27 (Link to this contribution) To return to the excellent point made by the hon. Member for Sherwood (Paddy Tipping), who will be i...
Baroness McIntosh of Pickering | 469 c28 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Lady accept that part of the rural economy revolves around people visiting areas...
Hazel Blears | 469 c28 (Link to this contribution) Indeed. In fact, under the Bill, people will have three opportunities to have a say. At the moment t...
William Cash | 469 c29 (Link to this contribution) In the light of what the Minister has said about the prospective 45 schemes per year, does she agree...
Hazel Blears | 469 c26 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that aviation is a matter of concern to the public. He will know that our ai...
Paul Farrelly | 469 c26 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend did not include motorways in her list. Three years ago, the then Transport Secr...
Jim Cunningham | 469 c26 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend spell out how these planning regulations will affect medium-sized airports...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 469 c26 (Link to this contribution) May I, as another Labour Member, say that some people would like to see a little more of the Napoleo...
Hazel Blears | 469 c26-7 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend makes an extremely important point. I have seen for myself the tremendous propo...
Hazel Blears | 469 c26 (Link to this contribution) I hope to be able to reassure my hon. Friend and all Members that under the Bill there will be more ...
Hazel Blears | 469 c26 (Link to this contribution) I will take a couple more interventions and then press on. I give way to my right hon. Friend the Me...
Hazel Blears | 469 c27 (Link to this contribution) I will try to be fair by giving way to the hon. Member for Hertford and Stortford (Mr. Prisk).
Paddy Tipping | 469 c27 (Link to this contribution) Given that the Secretary of State rightly spoke about the importance of Labour planning policy as a ...
Hazel Blears | 469 c27 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important issue. He has a proud record in this House of ensuring that local...
Speaker | 469 c25 (Link to this contribution) I inform the House that I have selected the amendment in the name of the Leader of the Opposition.
Hazel Blears | 469 c25 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. The Bill will reform the planning system to...
Paul Beresford | 469 c25 (Link to this contribution) I apologise for intervening so early on, but it is probably an appropriate moment. One of the diffic...
Hazel Blears | 469 c25 (Link to this contribution) I will gladly do that. The hon. Gentleman will see that in the clauses we set out the range of natio...
Paul Beresford | 469 c25 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Secretary of State very much. In my area, there is concern about the prospect of a previ...
Hazel Blears | 469 c25-6 (Link to this contribution) No. The hon. Gentleman will know that our proposal for eco-towns, which are currently the subject of...
John McDonnell | 469 c119 (Link to this contribution) Will the commitment that the Government have made on scrutiny and debate enable Members to table ame...
John Healey | 469 c119 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that I could have been clearer when I said that if, following the scrutiny of the spe...
John Healey | 469 c119-20 (Link to this contribution) I have a lot of ground to cover, so I shall turn now to the contribution of my right hon. Friend the...
John Healey | 469 c120 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend made exactly that point in the debate. As the White Paper said, we are looking at whe...
John Healey | 469 c118-9 (Link to this contribution) If the right hon. Gentleman reads the Hansard record, he will see that I explained a moment ago that...
John Healey | 469 c119 (Link to this contribution) Before I give way, may I say that we have received the letter, which I welcome, from the hon. Gentle...
Peter Luff | 469 c119 (Link to this contribution) Does that mean that the Minister does not assume that all such statements will necessarily be consid...
John Healey | 469 c122-3 (Link to this contribution) Not at this stage. If my hon. Friend wants to serve on the Committee, we will consider that. I say ...
John Healey | 469 c122 (Link to this contribution) The discussions continue. My hon. Friend the Member for Hayes and Harlington conceded that there wa...
John Healey | 469 c121 (Link to this contribution) I am going to come on to the point about Wales. If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I want to mak...
John Healey | 469 c121-2 (Link to this contribution) I am not giving way at this stage. My hon. Friend the Member for Pudsey (Mr. Truswell) has certainl...
Jacqui Lait | 469 c111-3 (Link to this contribution) I declare an interest, given that the regional development agencies have been mentioned: my husband ...
Jacqui Lait | 469 c116 (Link to this contribution) I wish the right hon. Gentleman had got to his feet earlier, but I have an eye to time. If he cares ...
Jacqui Lait | 469 c115-6 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend points out yet again the inadequacies of the Bill and the lack of forethought that ha...
Robert Syms | 469 c115 (Link to this contribution) The Bill states that the strategy has to be updated, but there is clearly a problem. If a strategy i...
Jacqui Lait | 469 c114-5 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend points out succinctly many of the problems present in the Bill, of which the issue of...
Jacqui Lait | 469 c113-4 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is exactly right. That problem emerged in relation to the committee on casinos, which...
Mark Prisk | 469 c113 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry to stop my hon. Friend mid-flow, but I am intrigued. During the debate, it has emerged th...
John Healey | 469 c116-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Beckenham (Mrs. Lait), although the last two minutes ...
John Healey | 469 c117-8 (Link to this contribution) Surely it is only a matter of time before the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) beco...
John Healey | 469 c118 (Link to this contribution) I have explained that the purpose of the levy is to help fund the infrastructure that is widely reco...
Lord Pickles | 469 c118 (Link to this contribution) Is the Minister saying that the levy—this new tax—will be related just to the project and to such ar...
Lord Deben | 469 c118 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister confirm that the money raised by the levy—or tax—will be applied specifically to t...
John Healey | 469 c118 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman shakes his head, but what I have described is the answer to his question ab...
John Healey | 469 c118 (Link to this contribution) If the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I will not. A lot of hon. Members in the Chamber have been he...
Keith Hill | 469 c49-50 (Link to this contribution) I certainly recognise the problem that the hon. Gentleman identifies. Indeed, I dealt with it extens...
Hazel Blears | 469 c27-8 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is under a fundamental misapprehension and raises an issue that should not be of ...
Hazel Blears | 469 c29 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman raises the issue of hybrid Bills, and some of these matters might have fallen int...
David Drew | 469 c108-11 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted to discuss this Bill, even at this late hour. I would have spoken earlier, but the Se...
David Curry | 469 c68 (Link to this contribution) I give way to my right hon. Friend, proud possessor of two of them.
Phyllis Starkey | 469 c34 (Link to this contribution) May I help my right hon. Friend with a practical example from Milton Keynes? Junction 13 of the M1 i...
Mark Prisk | 469 c92-3 (Link to this contribution) As the hon. Gentleman will know, St. Minver near Rock has an excellent community land trust, and I s...
Lord Deben | 469 c54 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman accept that his example is crucial, because a local concern about how ...
Desmond Turner | 469 c79-82 (Link to this contribution) I am aware of the point that the hon. Gentleman raises. He is quite right about the fiscal measures,...
Paul Farrelly | 469 c40 (Link to this contribution) Will the hon. Gentleman clear up a small matter of curiosity? He said that the Opposition did not op...
Lord Pickles | 469 c42 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that the hon. Gentleman was paying attention when I said that the national policy statemen...
Clive Betts | 469 c120 (Link to this contribution) Will my hon. Friend at least concede that public perception is important in this regard? Ministers w...
Roger Williams | 469 c122 (Link to this contribution) Under the current arrangements, any planning application for a power station in Wales over 50 MW is ...
Robert Syms | 469 c76-9 (Link to this contribution) First, I draw Members' attention to my entry in the Register of Members' Interests, so that they are...
John Healey | 469 c119 (Link to this contribution) Our principal aim is to ensure that national policy statements have sufficient scrutiny in this Hous...
Peter Luff | 469 c114 (Link to this contribution) I apologise to the House for not being here for the rest of the debate; my Committee was sitting for...

Notes

Daily part printing error - Amendment to Division No. 25 at 469 c132, in the Ayes, insert "Hill, rh. Keith".

Subjects

Devolved matters
Accountability
Aviation
Conservation
Climate change
Airports
Housing
Finance
Flood control
Environment protection
Energy
Infrastructure
Planning permission
Planning
Public participation
Motorways
Scotland
Sewage
Water supply
Sustainable development
Wales
Renewable energy
Taxation
Wind power
Sewers
Trees
Regional development agencies
Carbon emissions
National policy statements

Legislation

Planning Bill 2007-08

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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