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Public Bill Committee: 17th January 2008
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Planning Bill, continued

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

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Clause  105,  page  50,  line  23,  leave out ‘sections 106 and’ and insert ‘section’

Member’s explanatory statement

Amendments to Clauses 66, 75, 77 and 93 require applications for orders applying, modifying or

amending legislation to be determined by the Secretary of State. This is a consequential

amendment as Clause 106 and the reference to it in this Clause become unnecessary.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

213

Page  50,  line  27,  leave out Clause 106.

Member’s explanatory statement

Amendments to Clauses 66, 75, 77 and 93 require applications for orders applying, modifying or

amending legislation to be determined by the Secretary of State. This is a consequential

amendment as Clause 106 becomes unnecessary.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

27

Clause  130,  page  60,  line  39,  at end insert—

‘(1A)
The measuring and marking out of land shall not constitute development for the

purposes of this section.’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

28

Clause  133,  page  61,  line  37,  at end insert ‘provided that 24 hours notice of the

intended entry has been given to the occupier of land.’.

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Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

29

Clause  133,  page  61,  leave out lines 38 to 40.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

30

Clause  156,  page  83,  line  33,  after ‘may’, insert ‘on the request of a person

interested in any of the land to which the permission relates’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

31

Clause  156,  page  83,  line  34,  leave out ‘relating to land in their area’ and insert ‘for

which they are the local planning authority’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

32

Clause  156,  page  83,  line  34,  leave out ‘they are satisfied that’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

33

Clause  156,  page  83,  line  36,  leave out ‘a local planning authority must have’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

34

Clause  156,  page  83,  line  37,  after ‘regard’, insert ‘must be had’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

35

Clause  156,  page  83,  line  40,  leave out from beginning to end of line 1 on page 84.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

36

Page  88,  line  6,  leave out Clause 160.

Public Bill Committee: 17th January 2008
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Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

237

Page  124,  line  35,  leave out Schedule 5.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

238

Page  92,  line  29,  leave out Clauses 163 to 172.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

37

Clause  164,  page  93,  line  17,  leave out from ‘London’ to end of line 18.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

38

Clause  166,  page  94,  leave out lines 22 to 24.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

261

Clause  173,  page  97,  line  20,  leave out ‘35’.

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Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

39

Clause  179,  page  101,  line  1,  after ‘section’, insert ‘1(4), 47(1)’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

46

Clause  179,  page  101,  line  1,  after ‘section’, insert ‘1(4),’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

47

Clause  179,  page  101,  line  1,  after ‘section’, insert ‘47(1),’.

John Healey

153

Clause  182,  page  101,  line  20,  at end insert—

‘“alteration”, in relation to an airport, must be read in accordance with

section 19(5);’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This drafting amendment is needed in consequence of amendment 125.

John Healey

154

Clause  182,  page  101,  leave out lines 43 and 44.

Member’s explanatory statement

This drafting amendment is needed in consequence of amendment 125.

John Healey

155

Clause  182,  page  102,  line  1,  at end insert—

‘“gas reception facility” must be read in accordance with section [gas

reception facilities] (2);’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This drafting amendment is needed in consequence of amendment NC2.

John Healey

156

Clause  182,  page  102,  line  19,  at end insert—

‘“LNG facility” must be read in accordance with section [LNG facilities]

(3);’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This drafting amendment is needed in consequence of New Clause 1.

John Healey

157

Clause  182,  page  102,  line  50,  at end insert—

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‘“standard”, in relation to a volume of gas, means the volume of gas at a

pressure of 101.325 kiloPascals and a temperature of 273 Kelvin;’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment is needed in consequence of amendments 120 , New Clauses 1 and 2.

John Healey

158

Clause  182,  page  103,  line  6,  at end insert—

‘“underground gas storage facilities” must be read in accordance with

section 16(5);’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This drafting amendment is needed in consequence of amendment 120.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

217

Schedule  6,  page  129,  line  4,  column  2,  at beginning insert ‘Section 74(1)(b)’.

Member’s explanatory statement

The amendment repeals section 74(1)(b) of the TCPA which enables the Secretary of State to direct

that planning permission can be granted inconsistently with the development plan.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

218

Schedule  6,  page  129,  line  4,  column  2,  at beginning insert ‘Section 101’.

Member’s explanatory statement

The revocation of Section 101 and Schedule 8 remove the power for the Secretary of State to

appoint a Planning Inquiry Commission to inquire into proposed development.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

James Duddridge

Mr David Curry

362


Schedule  6,  page  129,  line  4,  column  2,  at beginning insert ‘Section 2B(6)(b)’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment repeals references to conservation area consent.

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Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

James Duddridge

Mr David Curry

365


Schedule  6,  page  129,  line  4,  column  2,  at beginning insert ‘In section 193,

subsection (3)(a) the word “and”’.

Member’s explanatory statement

Consequential amendment on New Clause 9 (lawful development certificates).

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

220

Schedule  6,  page  129,  line  8,  at end insert ‘Section 302’.

Member’s explanatory statement

Section 302 and Schedule 15 relate to enforcement against breaches of planning control carried

out during the Second World War.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

219

Schedule  6,  page  129,  line  10,  column  2,  at beginning insert ‘Schedule 8’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See explanatory statement for amendment 218.

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Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

James Duddridge

Mr David Curry

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Schedule  6,  page  129,  line  10,  at end insert—

‘Planning (Listed Buildings
Sections 74 and 75.

and Conservation Areas)

Act 1990 (c.9)

In sections 81A and 81B, subsections (5) and (8).

In section 82F, the words “or conservation area

consent”.

In section 91, the words ““conservation area consent”

has the meaning given in section 74(1);”.

In Schedule 4, paragraph 4, the words “and 74”.

In Schedule 4, paragraph 6, the words “or conservation

area consent”.

In Schedule 4, paragraph 7, the words “74 and 75”.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment repeals references to conservation area consent.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

221

Schedule  6,  page  129,  line  10,  at end insert ‘Schedule 15’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See explanatory statement for amendment 220.