Part of Planning and Compulsory Purchase (Re-committed) Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 10:30 am on 16 October 2003.
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
Shadow Spokesperson (Communities and Local Government)
10:30,
16 October 2003
Perhaps I can help my hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet. On reading the paragraph that deals with ''fuel'', I, too, thought that it was a mistake. That paragraph arises from section 19 of the principal Act, which deals with commons and open spaces. Under subsection (4) a
''fuel or field garden allotment''
means any allotment set out as a fuel allotment, or a field garden allotment, under the Inclosure Acts 1845 and 1842. [Interruption.] I was not intending to get at my hon. Friend—I am merely trying to help him. That subsection was intended to apply to such things as opencast coal mines, electricity apparatus and underground storage, including gas storage, and so forth, as was made clear.
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