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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI very much support the amendments in this group. I am lucky enough to live in Eastbourne, where Mary Ann Gilbert started a branch of the allotment movement in 1830. I think we…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI am tempted to make a 10-minute speech in response to that. If the Government decide they want to go to such a ridiculous length, it really is for the Government to—09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I thank the Minister for her answer, but I do not understand it. I will take the example of the future Sussex unitary, which will be a principal authority, or at least…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I have two amendments in this group. Amendment 135F is basically saying, “Look, we are generating a lot of quality biodiversity information within the planning system,…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am grateful for that answer by the noble Baroness, but she did not go as far as I hoped on my first amendment. I know that there is a lot of information being gathered…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI am grateful to the Minister for her answer. I welcome her to 10 September.09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I very much support the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett. That is not always the case, but we are lucky in this House to have the remaining two sane members of the Green…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, national park authorities ought to be part of this. I will wait for the Minister’s reply before I enlarge on that.09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillThose are not strategic plans at all; they are just bits. You are not actually producing a Sussex strategic plan at all; you are producing a north Sussex strategic plan. There is…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I have Amendment 135H in this group. This is another of my attempts to help the Government make the way that housing is delivered slightly more efficient. I live in…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI am grateful for the answers that the Minister has given, and I will think hard on what she said. I certainly understand what she said about the way of dealing with these things…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I accept that it has been agreed by the usual channels, but this is a revising Chamber and we are supposed to be looking at a serious Bill and taking its provisions…09 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, it is nice to see amity break out across the Committee after the previous group. I imagine a digital twin of the House of Lords would get to Amendment 135 by 7 pm.…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillI think the Government recognise this both in the later parts of this Bill and indeed in what they have done with offshore wind. They recognise that offshore wind will kill a…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, if I may return briefly to the main subject of bats, I do not at all agree with my noble friend Lord Howard of Rising that bats are unimportant. They are absolutely part…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I do not know if the Minister has spent much time looking at the maps of the advance of termites across France. It is a gentle horror film, if she likes such things.…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, I am very grateful for that reply, even though I had hoped for something more positive. I did take out of that, given the caution that the Minister expressed about…04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill04 Sept 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure BillMy Lords, does my noble friend realise that we could have had 10 front doors for that price?04 Sept 2025