Clause 1
Planning Bill
10:30 am
James Duddridge (Rochford and Southend East, Conservative)
Is my hon. Friend saying that planning is fundamentally not a simply technical issue? That is at the heart of the matter. A large degree of politics is involved, and someone with broader skills than the technical ones for planning should be brought in at some stage of the process. Ultimately, that needs to be at ministerial level. It is not simply a technical planning matter.