Clause 3 - RPB: general functions
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill
8:55 am
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold, Conservative)
This is, I am afraid, another example of sloppy drafting. Clause 3(2) states:
''The RPB must keep under review the matters which may be expected to affect''.
The question is, ''may be expected'' by whom? Is it the RPB? Is it the man on the Clapham omnibus? Is it a planning QC? Who might it be expected to be and what level of knowledge will that person have? My hon. Friends are on to a good point. We need the Minister to clarify what clause 3(2) means.