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House of Commons

Thursday 24th January 2008

Public Bill Committee

New Amendments handed in are marked thus

Other Amendments not tabled within the required notice period are marked thus

Planning Bill

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Note

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the

Committee [8th January 2008].

John Healey

51

Clause  38,  page  18,  line  33,  leave out ‘district council’ and insert ‘county council,

or district council,’.

Member’s explanatory statement

Clauses 37 and 38 require the applicant to consult the district council in an area where there are

two tiers of local authority. This amendment (read with amendment 52) has the effect that the

county council must also be consulted in such an area.

John Healey

52

Clause  38,  page  18,  leave out lines 34 and 35.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member's explanatory statement for amendment 51.

Dan Rogerson

Tom Brake

168

Clause  38,  page  18,  line  39,  leave out ‘or’.

Dan Rogerson

Tom Brake

169

Clause  38,  page  19,  line  2,  at end add—

‘(h)	a parish council,

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(i)	a community council in Wales, or

(j)	a community council in Scotland.’.

Dan Rogerson

Tom Brake

170

Clause  39,  page  19,  line  5,  at end insert ‘, or adjacent land’.

Dan Rogerson

Tom Brake

171

Clause  39,  page  19,  line  8,  at end insert ‘adjacent land, or’.

Dan Rogerson

Tom Brake

172

Clause  39,  page  19,  line  10,  at end insert ‘adjacent land, or’.

Dan Rogerson

Tom Brake

173

Clause  39,  page  19,  line  11,  at end insert ‘or adjacent land’.

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

Dan Rogerson

Tom Brake

62

Clause  40,  page  19,  line  35,  leave out ‘28’ and insert ‘56’.

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

63

Clause  42,  page  20,  line  8,  at end add ‘and those who might be significantly

affected by the development’.

John Healey

357

Clause  42,  page  20,  line  10,  at end insert—

‘(2A)

The deadline for the receipt by the applicant of a local authority’s response to

consultation under subsection (2) is the end of the period of 28 days that begins

with the day after the day on which the local authority receives the consultation

documents.

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(2B)	In subsection (2A) “the consultation documents” means the documents supplied

to the local authority by the applicant for the purpose of consulting the local

authority under subsection (2).’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment gives relevant local authorities 28 days in which to respond to the consultation

which Clause 42(2) requires the applicant to carry out.

John Healey

358

Clause  42,  page  20,  line  12,  leave out ‘received by the applicant’.

Member’s explanatory statement

The effect of this amendment, together with amendment 359, is that the applicant must have regard

to responses from local authorities only if they are received before the deadline introduced by

amendment 357.

John Healey

359

Clause  42,  page  20,  line  13,  after ‘(2)’ insert ‘that is received by the applicant

before the deadline imposed by subsection (2A)’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See Member's explanatory statement for amendment 358.

Dan Rogerson

Tom Brake

174

Clause  42,  page  20,  line  21,  leave out subsection (5) and insert—

‘(5)	The Commission must commission an independent third party (“third party”) to

undertake such community engagement in relation to an application for

development as the relevant local planning authority considers appropriate within

a set period (“the community engagement period”) of not more than six months.

(6)	The third party shall be required to publish a report (“the community engagement

report”) on its work within 14 days of the end of the community engagement

period.

(7)	The community engagement report will publish responses from interested parties,

including but not limited to those defined as Categories 1, 2 and 3 in section 39.

(8)	The applicant must within three months of the publication of the community

engagement report publish a response to indicate its intentions to change the

application.

(9)	The application for development consent may not make progress until such time

as the applicant has complied with subsection (8).

(10)	If the applicant has not complied with subsection (8) after a period of six months

the application shall be deemed to be withdrawn.’.

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Mr Clive Betts

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Richard Benyon

James Duddridge

Mr David Curry

326

Clause  44,  page  20,  line  37,  at end insert ‘and to a statement of impacts and

mitigation made under section (Duty to identify and mitigate adverse impacts).’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

232

Clause  45,  page  21,  line  10,  leave out ‘The Commission may give advice’ and

insert ‘The Secretary of State may, in connection with securing propriety, by regulations

make provision about the giving of advice by an existing government body appointed for

this purpose’.

Member’s explanatory statement

These amendments are intended to ensure that advice for potential applicants for nationally

significant infrastructure development is provided by an existing Government agency.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

13

Clause  45,  page  21,  line  13,  after ‘representations’, insert ‘including oral

submissions and cross examination of witnesses’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

233

Clause  45,  page  21,  line  15,  leave out ‘Commission may not under subsection (1)’

and insert ‘body appointed by regulations under subsection (1) may not under that

subsection’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See explanatory statement to amendment 232.

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Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

234

Clause  45,  page  21,  line  17,  leave out subsection (3).

Member’s explanatory statement

See explanatory statement to amendment 232.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

202

Clause  45,  page  21,  line  21,  leave out subsection (4) and insert—

‘(4)	The Commission shall disclose a person’s request for advice under subsection (1)

and the advice given under subsection (1) to a person to the public generally.’.

Member’s explanatory statement

The amendment requires requests for advice and the advice given to be made public. The existing

Clause 49(4) which allows regulations to provide whether this material is disclosed becomes

unnecessary and is deleted.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

235

Clause  45,  page  21,  line  25,  leave out ‘Commission’ and insert ‘appointed body’.

Member’s explanatory statement

See explanatory statement to amendment 232.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

262

Clause  46,  page  21,  line  41,  at end insert—

‘(2A)

The applicant shall pay the recipient’s reasonable costs of complying with the

notice.’.

Dan Rogerson

Tom Brake

175

Clause  46,  page  22,  line  17,  leave out ‘14’ and insert ‘56’.

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Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

263

Clause  46,  page  22,  line  17,  leave out ‘14’ and insert ‘28’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment gives a reasonable time to landowners to respond to requests for information.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

14

Clause  47,  page  23,  line  11,  at end insert—

‘(1A)

Subsection (1) shall come into force on such a day as the Secretary of State may

by order made by statutory instrument appoint.’.

Dan Rogerson

Tom Brake

176

Clause  47,  page  23,  line  27,  leave out ‘14’ and insert ‘56’.

Dan Rogerson

Tom Brake

177

Clause  48,  page  24,  line  16,  leave out from ‘land’ to end of line 17.

Dan Rogerson

Tom Brake

178

Clause  48,  page  24,  line  21,  leave out subsections (3) and (4).

John Healey

360

Clause  49,  page  24,  line  41,  at end insert—

‘(ba)

that development consent is required for any of the development to which

the application relates,’.

Member’s explanatory statement

The effect of this amendment is that the Commission can accept an application for development

consent only if it concludes that development consent is required for all or some of the development

to which the application relates.

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John Healey

361

Clause  49,  page  25,  line  1,  leave out ‘it’ and insert ‘the application’.

Member’s explanatory statement

This amendment is consequent on amendment 360.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

203

Clause  49,  page  25,  line  8,  leave out ‘from a local-authority consultee’.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

204

Clause  49,  page  25,  leave out lines 10 to 14.

Member’s explanatory statement

The Commission can only validate an application if the pre-application procedure has been

complied with. In doing so it has to have regard to representations on the adequacy of consultation

from local authorities (Clause 49(4)). The amendments require it to have regard to any

representations on the adequacy of consultation.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

Mr David Jones

Mr Richard Benyon

Mr David Curry

James Duddridge

205

Clause  49,  page  25,  line  17,  leave out ‘and 43’ and insert ‘, 43 and 44’.

Member’s explanatory statement

The Commission considers whether the applicant has taken account of the responses to

consultation and publicity (Clause 49(3)(d)). The amendment extends the ‘adequacy-of-

consultation representation’ to include comments whether account has been taken of those

responses.

Mrs Jacqui Lait

Robert Neill

15

Clause  50,  page  25,  line  29,  at end insert ‘and who must include persons consulted

under section 37(1)(a)’.

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