Clause 40 - Statement of development principles
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill
4:45 pm
Mr Matthew Green (Ludlow, Liberal Democrat)
I am now even more confused about Conservative Members' intentions in tabling this group of amendments. They hang together and would give local authorities the ability to consider a statement of development principle in the light of a legal requirement for the possible environmental impact assessment in amendment No. 98. I thought that that was a useful way of allowing them to decline to give a decision and then to take into account the environmental impact assessment. I am now baffled because this group of amendments seems to cover something else.