Asked by: Lord Krebs (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, or any other relevant legislation, confers on local planning authorities powers to enforce limits on the number of day and night movements of freight and passenger trains that they have set as a condition of granting planning approval to Network Rail.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
Where development is proposed and requires a planning application, local planning authorities have broad powers to impose conditions and enforce where they consider that conditions have been breached. Conditions must meet the policy test in the National Planning Policy Framework which states that planning conditions should only be imposed where they are necessary, relevant to planning and to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects. Whether enforcement action against breach of a condition is justified is a matter of their discretion for Local Planning Authorities.
Asked by: Lord Krebs (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, or any other legislation, confers on local planning authorities powers to enforce a requirement to install rail dampers to reduce noise that they have set as a condition of granting planning approval to Network Rail.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
Where development is proposed and requires a planning application, local planning authorities have broad powers to impose conditions and enforce where they consider that conditions have been breached. Conditions must meet the policy test in the National Planning Policy Framework which states that planning conditions should only be imposed where they are necessary, relevant to planning and to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects. Whether enforcement action against breach of a condition is justified is a matter of their discretion for Local Planning Authorities.
Asked by: Lord Krebs (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, or any other legislation, confers on local planning authorities powers to enforce sound and vibration monitoring requirements they have set as a condition of granting planning approval to Network Rail.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
Where development is proposed and requires a planning application, local planning authorities have broad powers to impose conditions and enforce where they consider that conditions have been breached. Conditions must meet the policy test in the National Planning Policy Framework which states that planning conditions should only be imposed where they are necessary, relevant to planning and to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects. Whether enforcement action against breach of a condition is justified is a matter of their discretion for Local Planning Authorities.
Asked by: Lord Krebs (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, or any other legislation, confers on local planning authorities powers to enforce speed restrictions they have set as a condition of granting planning approval to Network Rail.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
Where development is proposed and requires a planning application, local planning authorities have broad powers to impose conditions and enforce where they consider that conditions have been breached. Conditions must meet the policy test in the National Planning Policy Framework which states that planning conditions should only be imposed where they are necessary, relevant to planning and to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects. Whether enforcement action against breach of a condition is justified is a matter of their discretion for Local Planning Authorities.
Asked by: Lord Krebs (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, or any other legislation, confers on local planning authorities powers to enforce conditions that they have imposed upon Network Rail when approving a planning application.
Answered by Baroness Williams of Trafford - Shadow Chief Whip (Lords)
Where development is proposed and requires a planning application, local planning authorities have broad powers to impose conditions and enforce where they consider that conditions have been breached. Conditions must meet the policy test in the National Planning Policy Framework which states that planning conditions should only be imposed where they are necessary, relevant to planning and to the development to be permitted, enforceable, precise and reasonable in all other respects. Whether enforcement action against breach of a condition is justified is a matter of their discretion for Local Planning Authorities.
Asked by: Lord Krebs (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord De Mauley on 18 November (HL2662), what proportion of the £1.6 million spent by the Environment Agency’s Climate Ready Programme is allocated to communicating to the wider public, as opposed to organisations, the risks, opportunities and impacts of climate change on the well-being and economy of the United Kingdom.
Answered by Lord De Mauley
The Environment Agency’s Climate Ready support service focuses on the priority risks and sectors in the National Adaptation Programme report, published by the Government in July 2013 and, therefore, targets organisations rather than the general public.
The service provides advice and support to help businesses, public sector and other organisations to adapt and build resilience to climate change. Support service work is available directly to the public, including the Climate Ready bulletin that is produced on a monthly basis and sent out to anyone who has registered to receive it. These bulletins publicise the events and information that the service and its partners continue to make available.
Asked by: Lord Krebs (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord De Mauley on 18 November (HL2662), what are the outputs of the Department of Energy and Climate Change-led cross Government communications group promoting unified and consistent messaging on climate change.
Answered by Baroness Verma
The cross-Government communications group is composed of working-level officials invited from all Departments. The main aim is to share communication plans to ensure the messaging across all climate change communication is consistent across government.
Asked by: Lord Krebs (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord De Mauley on 18 November (HL2662), how often the Department of Energy and Climate Change-led cross Government communications group promoting unified and consistent messaging on climate change has met, and when it last met.
Answered by Baroness Verma
The group has met twice so far this year, in June and again in August.
Asked by: Lord Krebs (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how much the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has spent on communicating to the public the future risks, opportunities and impacts of climate change on the well-being and economy of the United Kingdom.
Answered by Lord De Mauley
Defra spent £8.3 million in 2013-14 under its core adapting to climate change programme. This included £1.6 million to the Environment Agency’s Climate Ready Support Service (CRSS) to help organisations across England adapt to a changing climate, through targeted engagement with key sectors and their representative bodies. Adaptation is mainstreamed across Government, and other Defra programmes also communicate climate change and impacts to their respective partners and sectors. Defra also participates in a DECC-led cross-Government communications group promoting unified and consistent messaging on climate change.
Defra continues to help build the nation’s resilience to a changing climate primarily through the implementation of the first National Adaptation Programme report published last July, the implementation of our Strategy for the second round of the Adaptation Reporting Power and improving our understanding of climate risk through the second Climate Change Risk Assessment due in 2017.
Asked by: Lord Krebs (Crossbench - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government which Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister has lead responsibility for communicating to the public the future risks, opportunities and impacts of climate change on the well-being and economy of the United Kingdom.
Answered by Lord De Mauley
Dan Rogerson, hon. Member for North Cornwall, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, is the Minister responsible for communicating information about, and adapting to, the risks, opportunities and impacts of climate change on the UK.