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Annette Brooke Excerpts
Monday 17th December 2012

(12 years ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Pickles Portrait Mr Pickles
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This is a continuation of a question that the hon. Gentleman asked me in the Select Committee. The truth is that we are making money available to ensure that contaminated brownfield sites can be dealt with. He is making an enormous mistake in suggesting that all brownfield sites are undevelopable; that is entirely wrong. Some brownfield sites are green and some greenfield sites are brown.

Annette Brooke Portrait Annette Brooke (Mid Dorset and North Poole) (LD)
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What overall impact does the Secretary of State estimate that the Growth and Infrastructure Bill will have on the green belt given the national planning policy framework that is now in place?

Lord Pickles Portrait Mr Pickles
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The green belt remains very safe and sound in coalition care. The position is clearly laid out in the national planning policy framework, and the Bill does not affect the green belt one iota.