Clause 70
Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [Lords]
5:00 pm
Julia Goldsworthy (Falmouth and Camborne, Liberal Democrat)
I want to add to that briefly. The debate goes back to a discussion that we had on a previous clause. That provision seems to have been added as a footnote to the range of things that the regional strategy needs to consider. The core function of the regional strategy is to set up policies on sustainable economic growth; but on development, it only sets out policies in relation to the development and use of land in the region. Because neither “sustainable”, nor “sustainability” are included in its core mission, it is difficult to see how they can have some additional regard to that. If it is really part of their core duty, why is that not set out in the earlier clause, rather than just added in parenthesis at the end?