Clause 54 - Wales Spatial Plan
Planning and Compulsory Purchase Bill
2:51 pm
Mr Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Cotswold, Conservative)
Indeed, Mr. Pike. Thank you for your helpful rulings.
Before we broke for the Division in the House, I was speaking to amendment No. 406. The purpose of the amendment is to tease out from the Minister the Government's reason for having different systems in Wales and England. In essence, the system in Wales is far simpler than that in England in that the Welsh Assembly seems to have complete control over what goes into the spatial plan for Wales and then ensures that it is considered by local authorities when they draw up their local development plan. There are no subdivisions of the local development plan, such as local development schemes, documents or frameworks, as there are in England. It is a much simpler and clearer scheme.