Neighbourhood Planning Bill

Baroness Pitkeathley Excerpts

Committee: 1st sitting (Hansard): House of Lords
Tuesday 31st January 2017 Grand Committee

Relevant document: 15th Report from the Delegated Powers Committee.

[The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Baroness Pitkeathley) (Lab)]

My Lords, good afternoon. If there is a Division in the Chamber while we are sitting, the Committee will adjourn as soon as the Division Bells are rung and resume after 10 minutes.

Amendment 1

Moved by

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[Lord Greaves (LD)]

My Lords, I should declare my interests again as we begin a new stage of the Bill. I am the deputy leader of Pendle Borough Council and a member of a development control committee. I am also a member of the neighbourhood planning steering group for the parish of Trawden Forest, which may provide an interesting view of the planning situation from different sides, not the least of which is discussing a new piece of legislation about it today.

Neighbourhood planning is new, which I suppose is why the Government are feeling their way along with everybody else and why we seem to get an annual Bill to fettle the legislation a little. Although some 1,800 projects have been started, and some finished, around the country, it is still very much a minority pursuit throughout England—that is something I want to return to on another amendment.

It seems more and more important for local planning authorities and neighbourhood planning bodies, whether forums or parishes, to work closely together and have good working relationships. It is becoming clear that in some places where difficulties are occurring in getting neighbourhood planning off the ground or carrying it out it is because those relationships do not exist. From the planning authority point of view—the district, the borough, the unitary authority or whatever it is—there is not an openness and a willingness to change the way they work and to accommodate the whole idea of neighbourhood planning, which can make things a great deal more complicated.

[The Deputy Chairman of Committees]

My Lords, there is a Division in the Chamber. This Committee stands adjourned for 10 minutes.

Fixed-term Parliaments Bill

Baroness Pitkeathley Excerpts

Monday 21st March 2011 Lords Chamber

[Lord Lloyd of Berwick]

I shall answer on the noble and learned Lord’s behalf. The evidence given to the Power commission was clearly in favour of more elections rather than fewer, not more than four years apart.

[The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Baroness Pitkeathley)]

My Lords, I remind you that the amendment is being withdrawn.

Amendment 11 withdrawn.

Fixed-term Parliaments Bill

Baroness Pitkeathley Excerpts

Tuesday 15th March 2011 Lords Chamber

Amendment 2 not moved.

[The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Baroness Pitkeathley)]

As we come to Amendment 3, I remind your Lordships that if it should be agreed to I cannot call Amendments 4 to 8 for reasons of pre-emption.

Amendment 3

Moved by