Land Use (Gardens Protection etc) Bill

Part of Orders of the Day – in the House of Commons at 1:00 pm on 2 February 2007.

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Photo of Natascha Engel Natascha Engel Labour, North East Derbyshire 1:00, 2 February 2007

Okay. According to the website, my hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Planning, and the Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, my hon. Friend Angela E. Smith, will be going there dressed in hard hats and Bob the Builder outfits and in their diggers, and they will be saying to people that they will be bulldozing through the side of their garden to get to the back of their garden, knocking down climbing-frames, filling in sandpits and building huge skyscrapers where their patios used to be.

The Tory party website talks of land grab. Most normal people in privately owned homes would be terrified if they read that that was going to happen and that people will come along to take their land away. That is quite irresponsible.