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HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 101, in schedule 7, page 270, line 31, at end insert— “(4) In this part— ‘mitigation of climate change’ means compliance with the objectives and relevant…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I welcome the Minister’s response and the clarification he provided. I am largely reassured, although I am still not entirely clear on the weight that those statements will have…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I welcome the amendment, because it probes the Government on an intriguing, if not uncontroversial, issue of whether a formal mechanism should be put in place to ensure that local…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fifteenth sitting)As the Minister would expect, I am disappointed by his response. He said that improving community engagement was an objective of the Bill. I do not see how he can reconcile that…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for tabling the amendment which, as she has set out, seeks to ensure that the Bill makes it clear that local planning authorities should have regard to…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 87, in clause 84, page 92, line 9, leave out lines 9 to 16 and insert— “(2) Before designating a policy as a national development management policy for the…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for tabling this group of amendments, which raise an incredibly important issue that the Bill is silent on. Debates about whether and how to formalise…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I must confess that I am slightly disappointed with that answer. I appreciate that, in reading his remarks, the Minister has addressed each of the amendments in this group, but I…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Clauses 85 and 86 relate to the spatial development strategy in London. I hazard a guess that the subject is not likely to set Government Members’ pulses racing, but it is…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention, which is a useful illustration of what local people and local community groups can add to the plan-making process. Our specific…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fifteenth sitting)It is a pleasure, as ever, to serve under your chairmanship, Mrs Murray. I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for York Central on this sensible amendment, which I am very…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 112, in schedule 7, page 224, line 14, after “authorities” insert “or county councils”. This amendment and amendment 113 would enable county councils to…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fourteenth sitting)Just to check that I understood the Minister correctly, is he saying that the new flexible alignment test, which is to follow in the Bill, will come in only at the point that the…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 109, in schedule 7, page 262, line 7, at end insert— “(1A) A local planning authority must have regard to the content of any relevant neighbourhood…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fifteenth sitting)Briefly, I have made it clear on previous occasions that we support any measures in the Bill that increase local democratic control over engagement with the planning process,…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fifteenth sitting)As I said, I expected that answer. The Minister said our exchanges feel somewhat like groundhog day; it will start to feel like that, because we will return to this issue. We all…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fifteenth sitting)The amendments relate to a matter that we have already considered at length. As such, I do not intend to detain the Committee for long in speaking to them. Their purpose is simply…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Fifteenth sitting)I beg to move amendment 99, in schedule 7, page 238, leave out lines 16 and 17. This amendment removes the requirement in inserted section 15C(7)(b) that a local development plan…14 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Thirteenth sitting)I very much agree that, potentially, some of the proposed reforms could exclude those on whom we rely most in our communities to engage with the planning process. My hon. Friend…12 Jul 2022HANSARDLevelling-up and Regeneration Bill (Thirteenth sitting)It is a pleasure to serve with you in the Chair, Sir Mark. I take the opportunity to echo the sentiments expressed by my hon. Friend the Member for Nottingham North in warmly…12 Jul 2022