Clause 42 - Power to decline to determine applications
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill
10:15 am
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold, Conservative)
A little light has been shone on an important matter. As more light is shone, it becomes more obvious that the Government's plans do not make a great deal of sense. The Minister was again struggling to give us a reasonable explanation, and we will study his words carefully, particularly as he has now told us that a second application may not go to appeal if the local authority has failed to determine it. It is an important matter that will exercise both Members and outside bodies. I will not press the matter to a vote, because I want to have the opportunity, subject to Mr. Speaker's selection, to return to it on Report, because it is such an important matter.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 42 ordered to stand part of the Bill.