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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, this is quite a wide-ranging group of amendments, and fairly disparate at that. I will first briefly focus on the amendments in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Lucas.…03 Nov 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Hodgson, for bringing these amendments, particularly Amendment 241. The noble Baroness raised the issue of land banking in Committee and…03 Nov 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, on these Benches we have much sympathy with the core principle behind this amendment from the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, regarding mayoral development corporations. The…03 Nov 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, my noble friend Lady Grender has cosigned the amendment in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Rock. Unfortunately, she is not well and so is not here tonight. She has…03 Nov 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I was very pleased to attach my name to the amendment in the name of the noble Lord, Lord Crisp. He raised a wider issue in the debate on what became the levelling-up…03 Nov 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, Amendments 208 and 231A, tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Roborough, and other noble Lords, seek to remove Clause 90 and Schedule 6 from the Bill. These Benches are not…03 Nov 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, in Committee, the noble Lord, Lord Cameron of Dillington, made a compelling case for the issue which he has reiterated this evening—the necessity for a code of practice…03 Nov 2025HANSARDLondon Boroughs: Financial SupportMy Lords, I have relevant interests as a councillor. The recent statistics published by the Government have pinpointed the areas of the country that suffer from immense…03 Nov 2025HANSARDTown and Country Planning (Crown Development Applications) (Procedure and Written Representations) Order 2025I accept that wholly. The Minister has always responded positively to the queries I have raised; it is just that we disagree on the balance. I shall continue challenging because I…30 Oct 2025HANSARDTown and Country Planning (Crown Development Applications) (Procedure and Written Representations) Order 2025That this House regrets that under the Town and Country Planning (Crown Development Applications) (Procedure and Written Representations) Order 2025 (SI 2025/409), the new routes…30 Oct 2025HANSARDTown and Country Planning (Crown Development Applications) (Procedure and Written Representations) Order 2025My Lords, I tabled a regret Motion on this statutory instrument well before the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, now making its way through your Lordships’ House, had even had…30 Oct 2025HANSARDTown and Country Planning (Crown Development Applications) (Procedure and Written Representations) Order 2025I thank the Minister very much for her full and detailed response to my concerns. Unfortunately, the fundamentals remain. The Minister is quite right to say that the local…30 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillUnfortunately, I do not accept the Minister’s argument because, under the Government’s own remediation acceleration scheme, it will take another six or seven years for people to…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI thank the Minister, the noble Earl, Lord Lytton, and the Conservative Front Bench for taking part in this debate, but I am thoroughly disappointed by the remarks of the Minister…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, has raised a very important issue that the Government need to think about, but, as the noble Lord explained, the issue relates not only to…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI thank the noble Lord, Lord Gove, for his intervention. He is right that when the scheme was established, it was on the basis of squeezing the housebuilders as far as they could…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, the purpose of tabling this amendment is twofold. First, it is to shine a beacon of light on a building scandal that has recently fallen out of the national spotlight.…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I have now sat through four discussions about the Hillside judgment. I am not sure that I am any the wiser for having done so, except to acknowledge that there is an…27 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, we on these Benches wholeheartedly support Amendment 102 in the name of the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty. It is quite sad, if we reflect, that local government formerly…27 Oct 2025