Written evidence to be reported to the House
Planning Bill
11:00 am
David Curry (Skipton and Ripon, Conservative)
But, Mr. Cridland, those analogies simply do not hold water. The Low Pay Commission does not take a decision that puts a nuclear power station at the bottom of your garden. These are planning issues which people often feel very strongly about. Any MP will tell you that the issues which come into their surgeries more than any other are planning issues. Why on earth do you think that this commission, no doubt selected with all sorts of care, is going to deliver the sort of cheerful consensus you imagine in an area where we have not seen it in the past? If it is in the national interest, why not make the decision and then concentrate on helping people to live with it?