Planning: Naseby Wind Farm

Baroness Parminter Excerpts

Tuesday 17th January 2012 Lords Chamber

[Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville]

My Lords—

[Baroness Parminter]

My Lords—

[The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Strathclyde)]

My Lords, I feel we should hear from my noble friend Lady Parminter.

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[Baroness Parminter]

Thank you. My Lords, does the Minister think that the opportunity to make revisions to the national planning policy framework should be used to make clear the importance of the landscape setting of historical assets in contributing to our understanding of a sense of place and who we are from the ideas and events that have shaped our country?

[Baroness Hanham]

My Lords, the national planning policy framework will be coming into existence in the next weeks or months. We are looking to the protection of areas of natural beauty as the noble Baroness has indicated.