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Local Transport Bill [Lords]
11:30 am
Rosie Winterton (Minister of State, Department for Transport; Doncaster Central, Labour)
There would be a consultation document. If the scheme was coming to the end of its 10-year period, the local authority would set out why it believed it should go ahead with the scheme. If there are no new proposals in the scheme, and it is roughly the same as it was before, it does not need to go through the approvals process. It can be appealed against, but it does not need to go through the approvals board.
If somebody reading the document said, “Well, I do not agree with that, I do not want the scheme to go ahead, I am going to appeal against it going ahead”, it would go through that appeals process. That is the system that would be adopted. If the scheme was changing entirely it would need to go to the approvals board and through a similar process whereby individuals would write in saying, “We do not believe that the scheme should go ahead, will you take our views into consideration?”. The approvals board would see all those cases. That would be more of a consultation exercise but there could be appeals against it.