Clause 30
Greater London Authority Bill
11:30 am
Andrew Pelling (Croydon Central, Conservative)
My hon. Friend continues to speak about the parallel process. Could not taking away the discretion and initiative at a local borough level mean that many schemes end up not being pursued? For a town such as Croydon, which has more than 350,000 people, regards itself as separate from London in some ways and has had a long history of significant planning initiatives of its own, surely the Bill offers the prospect of returning to the type of interference and confusion that we saw when the Greater London council was in existence?