New clause 11 - Enforcement in relation to Crown land
Planning and Compulsory Purchase (Re-committed) Bill
5:13 pm
Ms Yvette Cooper (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Pontefract and Castleford, Labour)
New clause 11 deals with enforcement in relation to Crown land, and new clause 37 makes the same provisions in Scottish planning legislation, but taking account of any differences in Scotland, such as the absence of Duchy land in relation to Crown immunity. The clauses are, at first sight, counter-intuitive. So far, we have set out the importance of removing Crown immunity in planning law so that, like everyone else, the Crown in its various guises must abide by the law—
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