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HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I beg to move amendment 97, in clause 55, page 88, line 6, leave out from “if” to “on” in line 8 and insert— “, by the EDP end date, the conservation measures are likely to be…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)I am not concerned, for the reasons set out in the “Brownfield Passport” working paper, which I encourage the hon. Gentleman to go away and read, if he has not had the chance to…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I understand the shadow Minister’s point, and I will offer to write to him. His point about the sequencing of an EDP and the conservation measures that it would give rise to is…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I take on board the strength of feeling that has been expressed. As with all the debates we are having, I will reflect on the arguments that hon. Members have made. However, we do…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I sat down because I saw the hon. Member for Hamble Valley rising. We do have another amendment to respond to, if he wants me to.14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)May I press the hon. Lady, so that I understand her carefully made point? A draft SDS will be published and it will be a requirement, under clause 12H, that the strategic planning…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank the shadow Minister for that point. We will come on to discuss our approach to development and the environment more generally when we reach part 3 of the Bill. In response…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I think I do, and I am happy to expand on the point. What I have been trying to convey is that local nature recovery strategies are a new system of spatial strategies for nature…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)In establishing this new approach, we recognise the need to ensure that developers have clarity around the required levels of contributions to benefit from an environmental…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I recognise that the amendment is a constructive attempt to highlight an issue that the OEP highlighted to us. I make the broad point again: we are carefully considering the…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)Once again, I understand the positive intent of the hon. Member for North Herefordshire’s amendment. Of course, improving air quality is a highly important issue in many parts of…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank members of the Committee for so eloquently outlining the intent of these amendments. I will first deal with amendments 1 and 30. I very much accept the positive intent of…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I do not think I could have been any clearer that the Government are reflecting on the OEP’s letter and the points it has set out. I will not issue the Government response to that…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)No, I think the hon. Gentleman is mistaken. As I have said, proposed new section 12D(4)(b), as drafted, enables spatial development strategies to describe infrastructure for both…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)Let me take each of the amendments in turn, beginning with amendment 88. I fully agree that it is essential to consider and identify infrastructure needs when planning for new…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I thank my hon. Friend for making that point. It is only seven days. The hon. Member for North Herefordshire might expect Government to move quicker than they do, but they do not.…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)I come back to the point I have made several times now: SDSs cannot allocate sites. There is a role for local plans underneath SDSs, which must be in general conformity with them.…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)It is worth reading the OEP’s letter in full. It broadly welcomes the overall thrust of the Bill in this area. We will reflect on and respond to the concerns it has highlighted.…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Seventh sitting)Let me begin with amendment 76, tabled by the hon. Member for Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner, which seeks to remove provision for the establishment of strategic planning boards…14 May 2025HANSARDPlanning and Infrastructure Bill (Eighth sitting)On that I point, as I have said, the Bill sets out that SDSs “must be designed to secure that the use and development of land in the strategy area contribute to the mitigation of,…14 May 2025