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House of Commons

Notices of Amendments

given on

Thursday 3 February 2011

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s):

Localism Bill Committee 56-65

Public Bill Committee

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Localism Bill

Alun Cairns

103

Clause  57,  page  37,  line  13,  at end insert—

‘(2)	Welsh Ministers must make provision to apply this Chapter, amended as

appropriate, to relevant authorities in Wales.’.

Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

104

Clause  71,  page  52,  line  3,  at end insert—

‘(7)	A list of assets of community value shall not include land or assets that are

Operational Land.

(8)	In this section “Operational Land” means—

(a)	in relation to statutory undertakers—

(i)	land which is used for the purpose of carrying on their

undertaking, and

(ii)	land in which an interest is held for that purpose;

(b)	in relation to public bodies that are not statutory undertakers, land which

is used for the purpose of carrying on their functions and duties.’.

Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

105

Clause  71,  page  51,  line  17,  leave out subsections (3) and (4) and insert—

‘(3)	Where land is included in a local authority’s list of assets of community value the

entry for that land is to be removed from the list after a period to be specified by

the appropriate authority, by regulations, of not less than five years.’.

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Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

106

Clause  73,  page  53,  line  10,  leave out sub-paragraph (iii) and insert—

‘(iii)

by other persons resident, or community organisations based,

within the local authority’s area unless otherwise prescribed by

the appropriate authority.’.

Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

107

Clause  73,  page  53,  line  11,  at end insert—

‘(2A)

For the purposes of subsection (2)(b) “community organisation” means a body—

(a)	that carries on acitivities primarily for the benefit of the community,

(b)	whose activities are not carried on for profit, and

(c)	whose activities are based primarily within the local authority’s area.

(2B)	The fact that an organisation’s activities generate a financial surplus does not

prevent it from being a community organisation for the purposes of subsection

(2)(b) so long as that surplus is used for the purposes of those activities or

invested in the community.’.

Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

108

Clause  73,  page  53,  line  15,  leave out paragraph (b).

Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

109

Clause  76,  page  54,  line  32,  at end insert ‘and this review must take no longer than

12 weeks’.

Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

110

Clause  76,  page  55,  line  10,  leave out ‘appeals’ and insert ‘an independent appeals

process’.

Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

111

Clause  79,  page  57,  line  5,  after ‘authority’, insert ‘following consultation with

appropriate bodies for a period of not less than 12 weeks,’.

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Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

112

Clause  82,  page  58,  line  18,  leave out first ‘the’ and insert ‘an independent’.

Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

113

Clause  66,  page  49,  line  13,  after ‘voluntary’, insert ‘or community’.

Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

114

Clause  66,  page  49,  line  1,  after ‘means’, insert ‘a body, the activities of which are

not carried on for profit, and which is’.

Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

115

Clause  66,  page  49,  line  7,  after ‘authority’, insert ‘who have formed an

organisation for charitable purposes or a community interest company or industrial and

provident society’.

Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

116

Clause  79,  page  56,  line  22,  leave out ‘C’ and insert ‘D’.

Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

117

Clause  79,  page  56,  line  31,  at end insert—

‘(4A)

Condition D is that, where the owner is a public body or third sector organisation,

any relevant community interest group has been provided with the option of first

refusal to purchase the asset, with regulations for this purpose specified by the

relevant authority.’.

Barbara Keeley

Alison Seabeck

Jack Dromey

118

Clause  68,  page  50,  line  20,  at end insert—

‘(7A)

If a contract for service provision is awarded to a relevant body which includes

employees of the relevant authority, the former employees of the relevant

authority holding paid employment with the relevant body are not subject to the

provisions of section 80 of the Local Government Act 1972.’.

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Stephen Gilbert

Mr David Ward

119

Clause  95,  page  67,  leave out lines 4 to 46.

Stephen Gilbert

Mr David Ward

120

Clause  82,  page  58,  line  2,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘must’.

Stephen Gilbert

Mr David Ward

121

Clause  82,  page  58,  line  4,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘must’.

Stephen Gilbert

Mr David Ward

122

Clause  72,  page  52,  line  7,  at end insert ‘, except that land of community value may

only be land owned by a relevant public authority.’.

Stephen Gilbert

Mr David Ward

123

Clause  40,  page  29,  line  10,  leave out subsection (2).

Stephen Gilbert

Mr David Ward

124

Clause  44,  page  31,  line  25,  leave out subsections (5) and (6).

Stephen Gilbert

Mr David Ward

125

Clause  50,  page  34,  line  9,  leave out subsections (4) and (5).

Community right of appeal

Stephen Gilbert

Mr David Ward

NC2

To move the following Clause:—

‘(1)	The Town and Country Planning Act 1990 is amended as follows—

(2)	In section 78 (appeals to the Secretary of State against planning decisions and

failure to take such decisions) after subsection (2) insert—

“(2A)

Where a local planning authority grants an application for planning

permission and—

(a)	the authority has publicised the application as not according with

the development plan in force in the area in which the land to

which the application relates is situated; or

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(b)	the application is one in which the authority has an interest as

defined in section 316;

certain persons as specified in subsection (2B) below may by notice

appeal to the Secretary of State, provided any one of the conditions in

subsection (2C) below are met.

(2B)	Persons who may by notice appeal to the Secretary of State against the

approval of planning permission in the circumstances specified in

subsection (2A) above, are—

(a)	the ward councillors for the area who have lodged a formal

objection to the planning application in writing to the planning

authority, or where there is more than one councillor, all

councillors by unanimity; or

(b)	any parish council or neighbourhood forum by two thirds

majority voting, as defined in section 61F, covering or adjoining

the area of land to which the application relates is situated,

(c)	any overview and scrutiny committee by two thirds majority

voting.

(2C)	The conditions are—

(a)	the application falls within the development plan in force in the

area,

(b)	the application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact

Assessment,

(c)	the planning officer has recommended refusal of planning

permission.”

(3)	Section 79 is amended as follows—

“(a)	in subsection (2), leave out “either” and after “planning

authority” insert “or the applicant (where different from the

appellant)”;

(b)	In subsection (6), after “the determination” insert “(except for

appeals as defined in section 78 (2A) and where the appellant is

as defined in section 78 (2B)).”’.

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