Clause 42 - Power to decline to determine applications
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill
10:15 am
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold, Conservative)
The Minister has skated past an important point. Is he now saying that if the local authority fails to determine the second application, that application cannot go to appeal? If so, the net effect of this ratchet would be even worse. The developer will simply make one application and immediately lodge an appeal if he believes that the local authority will not determine it.