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Public Bill Committee: 24th January 2008                

347

 

Planning Bill, continued

 
 

John Healey

 

376

 

Clause  73,  page  35,  line  25,  after ‘until’ insert ‘— (a)’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This is a technical amendment as a consequence of amendment 377.

 

John Healey

 

377

 

Clause  73,  page  35,  line  27,  after ‘application’ insert ‘, or

 

(b)    

(if earlier) the ex-Commissioner ceased to be the single Commissioner.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This clarifies that an ex-Commissioner will stop being treated as having continued to hold office

 

as a Commissioner if, for whatever reason, they cease to be the single Commissioner.

 


 

Dan Rogerson

 

Mr Clive Betts

 

293

 

Clause  75,  page  36,  line  8,  leave out paragraph (a).

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

208

 

Clause  75,  page  36,  line  9,  at end insert ‘and neither the applicant for development

 

consent proposes, nor the Commissioner considers, that any order granting development

 

consent should include provisions made in exercise of any of the powers conferred by

 

section105(6)(a) or (b).’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

The amendment provides that the Secretary of State will decide the application where it is

 

proposed by the applicant or the single Commissioner considering the application that any order

 

granting development consent will apply, modify or exclude legislation.

 

Dan Rogerson

 

Mr Clive Betts

 

294

 

Clause  75,  page  36,  line  10,  leave out ‘, in any other case’.

 


 

Mr Clive Betts

 

394

 

Page  36,  line  17,  leave out Clause 76.

 



 
 

Public Bill Committee: 24th January 2008                

348

 

Planning Bill, continued

 
 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

209

 

Clause  77,  page  36,  line  25,  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

If the Council consider that order granting development consent should be made

 

and should include provisions made in exercise of any of the powers conferred by

 

section 105(6)(a) or (b) it shall refer the single Commissioner’s report and a

 

report of its views to the Secretary of State for determination.’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

If the Council considers that an order should adopt, modify or exclude legislation then it must refer

 

the application with the single Commissioner’s report and a note of its views to the Secretary of

 

State.

 

Dan Rogerson

 

295

 

Clause  77,  page  36,  line  31,  at end add—

 

‘(5)    

Decisions made under this section shall be subject to approval by the Secretary of

 

State.’.

 

Mr Clive Betts

 

395

 

Page  36,  line  23,  leave out Clause 77.

 


 

Dan Rogerson

 

296

 

Clause  79,  page  37,  line  21,  leave out paragraph (a).

 

John Healey

 

378

 

Clause  79,  page  37,  line  21,  after ‘are’ insert ‘vexatious or’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment enables the Examining authority when examining an application for development

 

consent to disregard any representations, which it considers vexatious.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Richard Benyon

 

James Duddridge

 

Mr David Curry

 

409

 

Clause  79,  page  37,  line  21,  at end insert ‘or’.


 
 

Public Bill Committee: 24th January 2008                

349

 

Planning Bill, continued

 
 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Richard Benyon

 

James Duddridge

 

Mr David Curry

 

410

 

Clause  79,  page  37,  line  22,  leave out from ‘statement’ to end of line 23.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

20

 

Clause  79,  page  37,  line  23,  at end add—

 

‘(4)    

Subject to subsection (3) above, nothing in this section shall restrict the rights of

 

interested parties to make oral representations or cross-examine witnesses.’.

 


 

Mr Clive Betts

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Richard Benyon

 

James Duddridge

 

Mr David Curry

 

327

 

Clause  80,  page  37,  line  27,  at end insert ‘, but in doing so must consider any

 

statement of impacts and mitigation prepared under section (Duty to identify and mitigate

 

adverse impacts).’.

 

Dan Rogerson

 

297

 

Clause  80,  page  37,  line  30,  leave out ‘and’.

 

Dan Rogerson

 

298

 

Clause  80,  page  37,  line  31,  at end insert—

 

‘(c)    

an independent third party (“the third party”) who shall undertake

 

community engagement as set out in subsection (7), and

 

(d)    

senior officers and councillors of the relevant local planning authorities,’.

 

Mr Clive Betts

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Richard Benyon

 

James Duddridge

 

Mr David Curry

 

328

 

Clause  80,  page  37,  line  36,  at end insert ‘including receiving requests to be heard

 

orally pursuant to section 84.’.


 
 

Public Bill Committee: 24th January 2008                

350

 

Planning Bill, continued

 
 

Mr Clive Betts

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Richard Benyon

 

James Duddridge

 

Mr David Curry

 

329

 

Clause  80,  page  37,  line  36,  at end insert—

 

‘(b)    

to consider whether and how the range and comprehensiveness of the

 

issues identified in any statement of impacts and mitigations prepared

 

under section (Duty to identify and mitigate adverse impacts) and

 

mitigations proposed thereto should be examined.’.

 


 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

21

 

Clause  82,  page  38,  line  19,  leave out ‘is to’ and insert ‘may’.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

267

 

Clause  82,  page  38,  line  20,  after ‘written’, insert ‘and oral’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment shifts the consideration by the commission from a primarily written exercise to

 

include oral representations and site visit.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

22

 

Clause  82,  page  38,  line  20,  at end insert ‘subject to the right of interested parties to

 

make oral representations and cross-examine witnesses.’.


 
 

Public Bill Committee: 24th January 2008                

351

 

Planning Bill, continued

 
 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

268

 

Clause  82,  page  38,  line  20,  at end insert ‘and the carrying out of a site visit’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

See explanatory statement to amendment 267.

 


 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

269

 

Clause  83,  page  38,  line  42,  after ‘representations’, insert ‘whether personally, or

 

by its counsel, solicitor or agent’.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

270

 

Clause  83,  page  38,  line  42,  at end insert ‘and to call and to cross-examine

 

witnesses’.

 


 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

271

 

Clause  84,  page  39,  line  12,  after ‘representations’, insert ‘whether personally, or

 

by its counsel, solicitor or agent’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment establishes a right to be represented at hearings.


 
 

Public Bill Committee: 24th January 2008                

352

 

Planning Bill, continued

 
 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Tom Brake

 

Dan Rogerson

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

23

 

Clause  84,  page  39,  line  12,  at end insert ‘and to cross-examine witnesses’.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

272

 

Clause  84,  page  39,  line  12,  at end add ‘and to call and to cross-examine

 

witnesses’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment allows a person at the open-floor hearings to call and cross-examine witnesses.

 

Dan Rogerson

 

319

 

Clause  84,  page  39,  line  12,  at end add—

 

‘(4)    

Any deadline fixed under subsection (1) shall not be less than 56 days after the

 

day on which the date of the open-floor hearing is announced.’.

 


 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Tom Brake

 

Dan Rogerson

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

24

 

Clause  85,  page  39,  line  23,  leave out from beginning to second ‘the’ in line 24.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

273

 

Clause  85,  page  39,  leave out lines 23 to 25.

 

Mr Clive Betts

 

88

 

Clause  85,  page  39,  line  25,  at end insert ‘but where a local planning authority

 

requests that a party be cross-examinied, the Examining Authority will be obliged to grant

 

the request;’.


 
 

Public Bill Committee: 24th January 2008                

353

 

Planning Bill, continued

 
 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Tom Brake

 

Dan Rogerson

 

Mr Elfyn Llwyd

 

Mr David Jones

 

25

 

Clause  85,  page  39,  line  39,  leave out subsection (7).

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

274

 

Clause  85,  page  39,  line  43,  leave out ‘exceptionally’.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Mr Richard Benyon

 

Mr David Curry

 

James Duddridge

 

275

 

Clause  85,  page  39,  line  44,  leave out ‘necessary’ and insert ‘appropriate’.

 

John Healey

 

379

 

Clause  85,  page  40,  line  7,  after ‘irrelevant’ insert ‘, vexatious or’.

 

Member’s explanatory statement

 

This amendment enables the Examining authority to refuse to allow representations which it

 

considers to be vexatious to be made at a hearing.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Richard Benyon

 

James Duddridge

 

Mr David Curry

 

429

 

Clause  85,  page  40,  line  8,  at end insert ‘or,’.

 

Mrs Jacqui Lait

 

Robert Neill

 

Mr David Jones

 

Richard Benyon

 

James Duddridge

 

Mr David Curry

 

411

 

Clause  85,  page  40,  line  10,  leave out from ‘person)’ to end of line 11.

 



 
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