Clause 40 - Statement of development principles
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill
6:15 pm
Mr Tony McNulty (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Harrow East, Labour)
I shook my head only because ''excitement'' would be too strong a word.
As for the entirely appropriate references to section 92, I shall précis the little note that has been going back and forth. It says that section 92, which deals with outline planning permission, is to be repealed, and that that must be included in the Bill to enable outline planning permission to be abolished if SODP is successful. Crucially, however, that will be brought into effect by a commencement order, as detailed in clause 86(1). All the elements alluded to in the daughter document of the 18 July statement that outline planning permission will go if SODPs are successful are in the Bill, hence the rather complex references to section 92. However, those elements rely on a commencement order that will not be made unless and until the SODP is successful. I hope that that elucidates the rather convoluted references to section 92.
If I may, I now want to reverse the way in which I deal with the amendments, in complete contradiction to what I said earlier about dealing only with lead amendments.