Housing and Planning Bill

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Greaves for his amendment. The Government introduced the p...

I am grateful for the last sentence of that reply. I am talking not about pooling Section 106 con...

Moved by

Lord Greaves

102CA: Clause 144, page 73, line 17, leave out “related” and in...

My Lords, we now move on to the part of the Bill that is about housing development linked to appl...

My Lords, my name is associated with Clause 144 stand part, and I agree entirely with what my nob...

I am very grateful to the noble Lord for setting out the basis of his amendment. This clause will...

I am grateful to the Minister for explaining the Government’s position in great detail. Having he...

Moved by

The Duke of Somerset

102CK: Clause 144, page 73, line 40, at end insert—

My Lords, I will also speak to the other amendments in this group. I do so on behalf of my noble ...

My Lords, I do not want to exhaust the patience of the Committee but once again I draw attention ...

My Lords, Amendment 103BB deals with a minor but to some people significant point, which is the c...

My Lords, I turn to the detail of the compensation amendments, Amendments 102CK and 103BB, tabled...

The Minister said that he will write to the noble Duke. Can we all see a copy of that letter, and...

I am not in a position to make any guarantees this afternoon, but I will certainly include all no...

My Lords, I cannot see what attitude the Minister is taking towards the CLA amendments, as was ra...

Of course, I believe it will be best for me to include the technical details in the letter that I...

My Lords, I thank the Minister for his very full reply and the two noble Lords who have contribut...

Moved by

Lord Greaves

102CL: Clause 145, page 74, line 6, at end insert—

“( ) A...

My Lords, at last we arrive at perhaps the remaining flashpoint in the Bill. I rise to move Amend...

My Lords, I respectfully adopt most of the arguments advanced by the noble Lord in his critique o...

My Lords, so often during our deliberations on the Bill we have been hampered by a lack of inform...

My Lords, I do not wish to repeat the concerns I have had for some time over the amount of inform...

The noble Lord is very entertaining although I am not sure what his speech has to do with this Bi...

I am so pleased that I tempted the noble Lord to intervene at that stage, because I can now tell ...

My Lords, I listened very carefully to the noble Lord, Lord Deben. He seems to think that the pro...

My Lords, I rise to speak to Amendment 102D. I declare many different property interests, both di...

This is a useful amendment. Perhaps I am tempted to intervene by the rodomontade of my noble frie...

Nine days?

No—if the noble Lord had been here earlier, he would have heard that this came in at a very late ...

My Lords, I rise primarily to speak to Amendment 102D, to which my name is attached, but I cannot...

My Lords, I do not intend to detain your Lordships’ House for very long on this; everything that ...

My Lords, I support everything that has been said on this side so far and, in particular, Amendme...

My Lords, I refer the Committee to my pre-declared bunch of interests. I do not know whether I ha...

My Lords, I recognise that it is late in the day to be contributing to this amendment but I have ...

My Lords, I agree with the noble Baroness, Lady Young of Old Scone. I have two amendments in abou...

I thank all noble Lords for their contributions to an extremely interesting debate. Before I resp...

What is to stop an applicant going to the contractor and saying, “Look, I won’t give the local au...

The final decision on the application will be up to the committee. The noble Lord, Lord Beecham, ...

Can the Minister confirm whether an independent council planning officer who is employed by that ...

The answer to that is yes.

The problem that my noble friend might reflect on is that paragraph 463 of the Explanatory Notes ...

The Minister did not exactly reply to my question before. The applicant could go to the contracto...

I will respond to my noble friend first. It would be inappropriate to tell the planning inspector...

I am sorry, the Minister has not answered my question. I would like to see it answered before Rep...

I will take that back and write to the noble Lord. I will respond on one other general point befo...

I am sorry but the Minister specifically said yesterday that it would be before the House rises. ...

I will come back to that in a second, but as I say, we will be publishing the response by the end...

I think the Minister has overlooked the fact that the amendment also refers to “public bodies” be...

My apologies. However, my argument stands. We want to encourage the private sector to be involved...

I apologise, but will the Minister answer my other question about the technical consultation? It ...

I said earlier that we do not intend to force local authorities to outsource their functions. I w...

My Lords—

I have given the noble Lord the answer that I can. I am sorry that he is unhappy with it. I will ...

My Lords, there is a lot there to look at, read and think about. In the last argument there was s...

Yes!

I had to reply to the noble Lord, Lord Deben. I have one further point.

No!

It is a very constructive point. There is time to discuss this part of the Bill further before Re...

Moved by

Lord Greaves

102DC: Clause 145, page 74, line 36, at end insert—

“( ) ...

My Lords, I put this in a separate amendment because I wanted it set out and because it is the fu...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, for putting this unexpected discussion b...

My Lords, why can we not simply convert the first day of Report into a Committee day and have a p...

My Lords, I hate to intervene because the hour is getting late. These matters are generally decid...

The noble Lord’s Amendment 102DC is excessive, not least because local authorities tell us that i...

My Lords, I will. That was extremely helpful and I will read it carefully. On that basis, I beg l...

Moved by

Lord Harris of Haringey

My Lords, given that the Government Chief Whip has not yet arrived in the Chamber to explain what...

My Lords, I argue that the House should not resume. Discussions are ongoing with the Chief Whip a...

On the basis of that assurance that the Government Chief Whip will be joining us in about 10 minu...

Moved by

Lord Greaves

102F: After Clause 145, insert the following new Clause—

...

Briefly, my Lords, there were suggestions earlier from the noble Lord, Lord Deben, who is no long...

I thank the noble Lord and I will respond very briefly. We recognise that the process of getting ...

My Lords, I am happy to beg leave to do so.

Moved by

Lord Harris of Haringey

My Lords, the Government Chief Whip briefly appeared in the Chamber. I now see that the Leader an...

My Lords, before the noble Lord, Lord Harris, continues, for the benefit of the House I should li...

I am sure that this will be helpful. It is clearly progress and we all want to get on with this. ...

It may be helpful for the noble Lord to know that is has been agreed with the usual channels to h...

My Lords, I am sure that that is the case, but I am not a member of the usual channels. There are...

My Lords, perhaps I might speak as the Minister who is on the Bill. We have spent many weeks on i...

My Lords, we now have nine groups which has normally been a day’s work. Are the Government expect...

My Lords, my noble friend has been very clear. Following discussions with the usual channels, my ...

I am sorry to persist, but these are very important matters. Why does not the Leader of the House...

I say to the noble Lord that the best thing for us to do now is just to continue with the work of...

That might be the view of the Leader of the House, but it is not my view. The House is being unfa...

I absolve the noble Lord, Lord Campbell-Savours, because he has been present for most of the Bill...

My Lords, for the convenience of the House I shall now seek, representing the opposition Chief Wh...

My Lords, if it helps the House, given the assurance from my noble friend that these discussions ...

Moved by

Lord McKenzie of Luton

103: After Clause 151, insert the following new Claus...

My Lords, I rise to speak briefly—that was the plan—to Amendment 103, tabled by my noble friends ...

My Lords, I shall speak to Amendments 103A and 103B and in support of Amendment 103. Given the ho...

My Lords, I intend to make myself extremely popular by not speaking to this amendment, other than...

My Lords, I want to speak to this group of amendments because I think they are very important. Ea...

My Lords, the amendments are indeed very timely. On Amendment 103, I say at the outset that I who...

My Lords, I am grateful to the noble Lords, Lord Taylor and Lord Best, and my noble friend Lord H...

Obviously I will not seek to press these amendments but I very much welcome what the Minister sai...

I beg leave to withdraw the amendment.

Moved by

Baroness Parminter

103C: Clause 179, page 93, line 21, at end insert—

...

My Lords, in the absence of the noble Baroness, Lady Andrews, who has a long-standing engagement ...

My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Parminter, for raising this very important issue in th...

I thank the Minister most warmly for those very encouraging words. I shall obviously discuss the ...

Moved by

Lord Skelmersdale

104: After Clause 179, insert the following new Clause—