Clause 40 - Statement of development principles
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill
6:45 pm
Sir Sydney Chapman (Chipping Barnet, Conservative)
I am grateful for what the Minister has said, but it is what he has not said that is interesting.
The Minister profoundly disagrees with everything that I have said. Amendment No. 319 would introduce the words:
''Where a local planning authority issue a statement of development principles in which they disagree with the principle of the proposed development''.
Can the Minister give the Committee an instance in which a local planning authority would approve a planning application despite disagreeing with its principle? Subsection (5) gives a planning authority the power deliberately to slow down, if not thwart, a planning application with which it disagrees on principle. All I am saying is that if a planning authority issues a statement of development principles, the person who is disadvantaged by it should be able to appeal to the Secretary of State.