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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I shall not press this amendment to a vote—we have a lot of business to do—but I am not convinced that the noble Baroness and, inter alia, Natural England as the…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillBut I am concerned, listening to this, because we will be letting the water undertakers—the sewage firms—off the hook if we are not careful. I say to my noble friend that I have…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, on this group of amendments I feel as if I am on my own. I agree absolutely that SUDS, or sustainable urban drainage systems, can play a wonderful role for smaller-style…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I support Amendment 199 because I think it is important that we protect and recognise our historic trees. I am thinking not just of the highway and byway trees; there…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I have spoken about the lifetime of the EDP and the enforceability of measures, but now we get to the price to be charged. I will amplify some of the points in Amendment…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI thank the noble Lord and shall wind up. The noble Baroness and I have a meeting next week, when I hope that we can develop this point further to see whether the Government may…29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill29 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, nobody, I believe, would want to disagree with members of planning committees, those decision-makers at all levels, being trained. Noble Lords will remember that I…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, briefly, I support Amendment 103, in the name of my noble friend Lord Banner, who I see is now in his place, on proportionality in planning. In Committee, his amendment…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, in the last group your Lordships’ House gave a pretty strong steer when it felt that the role of councillors and councils in determining local planning applications…22 Oct 2025HANSARDInternational Maritime Organization: Net-Zero FrameworkMy Lords, last week in London, only 49 of the 127 delegates—around one-third—voted for the net-zero framework. Does the Minister agree with me that the IMO would be well advised…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI was not making a suggestion about whether climate science is there. There are different levels of science in all manner of different disciplines in planning. Some of it is…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I strongly support Amendment 76 in the name of my noble friends on the Front Bench. As I have reminded noble Lords before, I have sat on a planning committee many times,…22 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, so here we are again. I thank the noble Baroness, Lady Pinnock, for focusing our minds at the outset on what this Bill is about. It is a welcome amendment because the…20 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill20 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I came to this debate keen to divide the House on this important matter. However, during the debate a number of issues have come to light, not least the meeting held…20 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill20 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, my Amendment 43, co-signed by my Front-Bench colleagues, is simple and straightforward, rather like Amendment 45 from my noble friend Lady Hodgson, who, sadly, is not in…20 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for her winding. I do not intend to relitigate the debate we have just had; it is very late. It is almost as if the Government timetabled this…20 Oct 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, when I moved this amendment, which is now Amendment 25, in Committee, the lamented noble Lord, Lord Khan, went as far as he could at that point to open the door to…20 Oct 2025