Clause 70
Planning Bill
3:00 pm
Dan Rogerson (Shadow Minister (Arts, Culture and Heritage), Culture, Media & Sport; North Cornwall, Liberal Democrat)
I want to return to the issue of the single commissioner and would like to vote on clause stand part.
To delete clause 70 would have a fairly drastic effect on the function of the single commissioner. As far as I can see, single commissioners should not be considering applications of national importance. Having moved away from the issue of democratic accountability, I will not go over again the arguments about whether the infrastructure planning commission is a beneficial part of the Bill, but I will say that if we are going to have such applications considered, it should be done by a group of commissioners rather than a single one.