Clause 14
Housing and Regeneration Bill
4:00 pm
Iain Wright (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Communities and Local Government; Hartlepool, Labour)
I welcome you to the Chair, Mr. Benton. It is good to see you.
The hon. Gentleman has got to the crux of the argument on the clause and the amendment. Does he agree that if the agency has local development plans conferred on it, it will be required under the statutory planning framework to go out to consultation if it wishes to amend them? It will have the same responsibilities as the local planning authority, and that is where consultation would come in. Is that not the case?