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HANSARDTown and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020My Lords, I draw the House’s attention to my relevant interests in the register as a councillor and a vice-president of the Local Government Association. This statutory instrument…29 Jul 2020HANSARDPlanning RulesMy Lords, I am a councillor. Under these changes, a local business could be demolished and replaced with flats. The existing residents would be badly affected. Such residents…28 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillMy Lords, I draw the House’s attention to my interests as set out in the register as a councillor and a vice-president of the Local Government Association. We on these Benches…20 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillThere are two related but separate amendments in this group concerning off-sales. The first, to limit the time for off-sales, was the subject of extensive debate in Committee and…20 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillI thank all noble Lords who contributed on this group of amendments. I am pleased that the Government’s administrative oversight in connection to the mayoral development agency in…20 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillMy Lords, thanks to the work of the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, a number of very important amendments have been tabled by the Government that limit the…20 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillNoble Lords, I apologise for the technical fault that rendered my audio not working. My noble friend Lady Doocey again made a very persuasive case for giving a lift to our local…20 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillMy Lords, we have heard, as we did in Committee, powerful arguments about taking this opportunity to exclude smoking from new pavement licensed areas. The case for ensuring that…20 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning Bill20 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillMy Lords, just to make it quite clear, we on these Benches support the moves the Government are seeking to make in the Bill to provide additional flexibilities to the construction…20 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning Bill[ Inaudible .]—and related amendments, including one tabled by my noble friend Lord Addington that seeks to give sports clubs which often rely on bar takings, the same facility as…20 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillI too support this amendment, moved by the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy. The issues were raised at Second Reading. There will be unexpected impacts as a consequence of the…14 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillMy Lords, it is a pity that the debate on these important amendments has not been taken as a whole. I am responding to the introduction to the debate on this group, which began…14 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillI remind noble Lords of my interests as set out in the register as a councillor and a vice-president of the Local Government Association. We on these Benches understand and…14 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillMy Lords, Amendment 77 on employee and employer considerations, in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Hain, is a timely reminder that all the elements of the Bill have a consequence…14 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillI have a short comment to make on the amendments of the noble Lord, Lord Lansley. He makes a strong argument in his request for a time extension to planning permissions and…14 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillMy Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Williams of Trafford, has given the Committee an assurance that the Government will bring forward an amendment about restricting the time at…13 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillMy noble friend Lady Bowles has raised detailed issues about the use of alternatives to pavement licences that may be of more value to pubs and cafés and less disruptive to…13 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillMy Lords, I draw the House’s attention to my interests set out in the register as a councillor and as a vice-president of the Local Government Association. We on these Benches…13 Jul 2020HANSARDBusiness and Planning BillMy Lords, we have heard powerful and eloquent contributions, led by my noble friend Lady Northover, on the imperative to ensure that by extending ways in which pubs and cafés can…13 Jul 2020