New clause 27 - Qualified third party right of appeal
Planning and Compulsory Purchase (Re-committed) Bill
5:45 pm
Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight, Conservative)
If the hon. Gentleman is putting in more ''ors'', we are all rowing in the same direction. If there should be an ''or'' between (c) and (d) and between (d) and (e), that would make his new clause slightly more acceptable. I now understand the explanation that he gave for paragraph (e) earlier on. The planning officer does not trigger the third-party appeal—he is the hurdle in the way of that right of appeal.
So many of the justifications put forward by the hon. Member for Ludlow resonate with real residents in real places. In saying that the word ''or'' should be included, the hon. Gentleman is telling me that that the new clause does not provide a means of preventing a right of appeal, although many developers will do their best to avoid putting in an environmental impact assessment, for example. It is, in fact, a means of permitting a right of appeal. I am beginning to get the message. I am glad to have that assurance.
I support the new clause tabled by my hon. Friend the Member for Cotswold, and what he said about it not according with the development plan. That seems to be a matter of consensus among all hon. Members on the Opposition Benches and is an essential and
entirely justified requirement. I can give examples from my constituency, where the development of a wind farm is outside the development plan. There is no mention in that plan of a wind farm—certainly not for the site on which the local authority has approved the development of a wind farm. Perhaps I have should not tempt the Minister too far in this direction, because I believe that there is either a request for the
Minister to call in the case, or an ombudsman case against him for not calling it in. I feel that that entirely justifies a third-party right of appeal, and I am happy to see it in both the new clauses, and so I am pleased to support them.
Debate adjourned.—[Paul Clark.]
Adjourned accordingly at Six o'clock till Tuesday 21 October at ten minutes past Nine o'clock.