Oral Answers to Questions

Debate between Baroness Fullbrook and Greg Clark

Monday 31st October 2011 Commons Chamber

[Greg Clark]

My hon. Friend knows that I cannot comment on the particular situation to which she refers, but she should be reassured about the new powers set out in the framework. The Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, my hon. Friend the Member for Bromley and Chislehurst (Robert Neill), quoted from the legal bible on planning, the planning encyclopaedia. It states, “The most impressive of the sections in the NPPF is that on the green belt.” As a précis of PPG, it states that, “it could not be bettered, in particular in respect to inappropriate development. It would certainly be inconsistent with the policies herein contained for there to be any significant encroachment of built development on the green belt.”

[Lorraine Fullbrook (South Ribble) (Con)]

21. What plans he has to increase the powers of local authorities to deal with unauthorised development.