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Lord Williams of Elvel asked Her Majesty's Government:
The Lord Chancellor (Lord Mackay of Clashfern): No discussions were held. However, published material about similar forms of title in other countries was taken into account.
Lord Williams of Elvel asked Her Majesty's Government:
The Lord Chancellor: There were 60 consultation responses. Most supported the principle of commonhold and raised helpful practical points. The main concerns expressed were about:
(a) the restriction of length of lease on a commonhold unit to a maximum of 25 years;
(b) the commonhold association's power to sell a unit to recover unpaid service charges without the requirement of a court order;
(c) whether the Bill should compel freeholders to consent to conversion to a commonhold;
(d) the lack of an alternative dispute resolution process;
(e) too great a reliance on secondary legislation for the details of the system.
Lord Denning asked Her Majesty's Government:
The Lord Chancellor: The Public Record Office Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vic c 94) placed the records of the Chancery of England in the custody of the Master of the Rolls, and empowered him also to take into his custody other records belonging to Her Majesty. These records were at the time located in many different buildings, and the Act permitted the Master of the Rolls to move them from one place to another. The Act additionally said that a Public Record Office should be created as soon as possible and directed the Treasury to provide (Section 7):
The Public Record Office Act was repealed in its entirety by the Public Records Act 1958 (1958 c 51), which similarly contains no requirements about the location of the Office or the records. The Rolls Estate Act was repealed by the Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1975 (1975 c 10), with the exception of Section 4, which contains the provisions for appropriation quoted above.
Since there is no statutory requirement about the location of the office or the records, there is no need for a new Act of Parliament for the removal of the records from the Public Record Office in Chancery Lane.
Lord Pearson of Rannoch asked Her Majesty's Government:
The Minister of State, Department of the Environment (Earl Ferrers): The EC "Stage 1" Directive on the control of volatile organic compound emissions during the storage and distribution of petrol, referred to in the question, was transposed into British legislation by statutory instrument last month. I fully share the view, which was expressed by my noble friend Lord Strathclyde in 1993, that the derogations which the United Kingdom successfully sought to be included in the directive have given us flexibility in its implementation and will ensure that small rural petrol stations will not have to bear unreasonable costs.
Service stations with an annual throughput smaller than 100 cubic metres are exempt altogether. Those with an annual throughput between 100-500 cubic metres, and which are located in a geographical area or on a site where vapour emissions are unlikely to contribute significantly to environmental or health problems, may also be exempted.
We intend to make full use of this derogation for existing service stations, although at the request of the petroleum industry we have delayed defining the exempt areas until nearer 2004 when the regulations will come into force for stations of that size. This is to ensure that they are identified on the basis of the best scientific information which is then available. The regulations already specify exempt areas for new stations of that size. These are located in rural parts of northern Scotland.
Lord Avebury asked Her Majesty's Government:
Earl Ferrers: The grant aid paid to local authorities in the United Kingdom for gypsy caravan sites, compared with original and final provision for each of the years 1992-93 to 1995-96, was:
Original provision | Final provision | Expenditure | |
1992-93 | 15.6 | 16.0 | 17.1 |
1993-94 | 15.9 | 15.9 | 15.0 |
1994-95 | 16.2 | 21.4 | 19.5 |
1995-96 | 16.1 | 16.3 | 16.9 |
Lord Avebury asked Her Majesty's Government:
Earl Ferrers: At January 1996, there were 110 uncompleted schemes in the United Kingdom with Stage II approval (or equivalent), which would provide 1,907 pitches. Of these schemes, 51 (813 pitches) were new sites. The remaining 59 (1,094 pitches) represent refurbishment of existing sites. A list of these sites is attached.
I regret that to provide this information for preceding years would entail disproportionate cost.
Site | (N)ew / (R)efurb | Number of pitches |
Corbriggs, Chesterfield | R | 16 |
Daneshill, Nottinghamshire | N | 16 |
Meynells Gorse, Leicester | R | 20 |
Roundlands, Boston, Lincolnshire | N | 4 |
Bignalls Corner, Hertsmere | N | 15 |
Blackwell, Mereway | R | 10 |
Chiltern View, Easton Bray | R | 25 |
Dyes Lane, Stevenage | N | 14 |
Earith Bridge, Cambridgeshire | R | 40 |
Elizabeth Way, Essex | R | 21 |
Felsted Ph2, Uttlesford, Essex | R | 10 |
Fenland Way Chatteris | R | 12 |
Fernhill Lane, Harlow | N | 23 |
First Drove, Burwell | R | 8 |
Gammon Field, Grays, Essex | N | 21 |
Hovefields, Courtauld Road | R | 25 |
Kessingland, Waveney, Suffolk | N | 20 |
Long Marston, Tring, Hertfordshire | R | 6 |
Mansion Lane, Iver, Buckinghamshire | N | 12 |
Mile Cross Site 1, Norwich | R | 19 |
Newbridge Lane, Wisbech | R | 24 |
Oxney Road, Peterborough | R | 24 |
Paston Ridings, Peterborough | R | 40 |
Pepperstock, Luton | R | 10 |
Ridgwell, Essex | N | 12 |
Romany Way, Bury St. Edmunds | R | 26 |
Seadyke Bank, Cambridgeshire | N | 12 |
Ship Lane, Thurrock, Essex | R | 21 |
Swaffham, Castle Acre Road, Norfolk | N | 23 |
Wapsey's Wood, Bucks | R | 17 |
Copperkins Lane, Amersham, Buckinghamshire | R | 6 |
Bottoms Walton, South Buckinghamshire | R | 10 |
Stopsley, Luton | R | 20 |
Gapton Hall, Great Yarmouth | R | 19 |
Saddlebow, Kings Lynn and West Norfolk | R | 8 |
Costessy, Norwich | R | 18 |
Mile Cross 2, Norwich | N | 20 |
Woodham Walter, Essex | N | 20 |
Civic Centre, Wood Green, London | N | 6 |
Durnsford Road, London SW | R | 15 |
Lonesome Depot, Leonard Way London SW16 | N | 15 |
Castlehaven Road, Camden | R | 1 |
Dalby Street, Camden | R | 3 |
Clyde Road, Haringey | N | 4 |
Folly Lane, Waltham Forest | N | 17 |
Thistlebrook, Abbey Wood, London SE2 | R | 40 |
Ash Bridge, Guildford | N | 13 |
Green Lane, Outwood, Tandridge | R | 14 |
Hever Road, Edenbridge, Kent | R | 12 |
Polhill, Sevenoaks, Kent | N | 7 |
Sandford, South Oxfordshire | R | 16 |
Standlake, West Oxfordshire | N | 16 |
Sundridge Hill, Cuxton, Kent | R | 15 |
Swan Farm, Sevenoaks, Kent | N | 35 |
Vauxhall Road, Canterbury | R | 18 |
Wheatley, South Oxfordshire | N | 16 |
Withy Patch, Lancing, West Sussex | R | 12 |
Swan Barn, East Sussex | R | 5 |
Polly Arch, East Sussex | R | 6 |
Windmill Lane, Tonbridge and Malling, Kent | R | 14 |
Durrants Farm, Tunbridge Wells, Kent | N | 4 |
Ashfield Farm, Rudgeway, Northavon Bristol | N | 20 |
Berkley, Berkley Lane, Somerset | R | 15 |
Bonnie Park, Trowbridge Road, Bratton Wiltshire | R | 6 |
Boscarn Parc, Camborne, Cornwall | N | 31 |
Chiseldon, Near Swindon, Wiltshire | R | 30 |
Culkerton, New Barn Farm, Gloucestershire | N | 4 |
Haylane, Wroughton, Swindon | R | 37 |
Middlezoy, Bridgewater, Somerset | N | 20 |
Otterford, Culmhead, Near Taunton | R | 18 |
Patchway, Highwood Lane, Bristol | R | 17 |
Piddlehinton Camp, Near Dorchester | R | 16 |
Showborough Common, Tewkesbury | N | 10 |
Thornicombe, Near Blandford, Dorset | R | 12 |
Wheal Jewel, The Pound, St. Day, Redruth | N | 24 |
Winterbourne, Avon | N | 17 |
Failand, Avon | N | 1 |
Dairyhouse Bridge, Salisbury, Wiltshire | R | 18 |
Odstock, Salisbury, Wiltshire | R | 50 |
Watery Lane, Hereford | N | 11 |
Evesham Road, Wychavon | N | 8 |
Offerton Lane, Worcester | R | 21 |
Blackmore Park, Malvern Hills | N | 5 |
Cemetary Road, Newcastle, Staffordshire | N | 17 |
Houndsfield Lane, Bromsgrove | R | 26 |
Linehouses, Stoke-on-Trent | R | 24 |
Linton Tileworks, Malvern Hills | N | 14 |
Lower Heath, Stourport-on-Severn, Wyre Forest | R | 39 |
Madley, Hereford | N | 17 |
Tinkers Corner, Bosbury, Malvern Hills | N | 7 |
Showell Road, Wolverhampton | R | 16 |
Hipton Hill, Wychavon | R | 22 |
Pinvin, Wychavon | R | 15 |
Bedford Street, Hull | N | 10 |
Conesby Quarry, Scunthorpe | N | 20 |
Hallfield Road, Foss Islands, York | N | 20 |
Harland Way, Cottingham, Beverley | R | 27 |
Harrogate GS, Harrogate Southern Bypass | N | 20 |
Newington Street, Hull | N | 10 |
Smithies Lane, Barnsley | R | 29 |
Springs Lane, Bickerton, North Yorkshire | N | 21 |
Thirsk, Thirsk Bypass | N | 16 |
Tinsley Park, Sheffield | N | 14 |
Wincolmlee, Hull | N | 27 |
Woldgate, Bridlington | N | 27 |
Craigforth, Stirling | N | 20 |
Forrest Street, Airdriee | N | 16 |
Mossend, Motherwell | R | 20 |
Torlochan, Argyll and Bute | R | 10 |
Monagh Wood, West Belfast | N | 21 |
1,907 |
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