Neighbourhood Planning Bill (Second sitting)
Debate between Kit Malthouse and Chris Philp
Committee Debate: 2nd sitting: House of Commons
Tuesday 18th October 2016
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Tuesday 18th October 2016
(8 years, 1 month ago)
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Kit Malthouse
Q Minister, you will have gathered from my line of questioning that I am concerned about protection for neighbourhood plans. I am pleased to see what is in the Bill, but part of the genesis of the Bill with the previous Minister was, I think, a case in Oakley in my constituency where an appeal was allowed five or six days before the referendum on the neighbourhood plan, notwithstanding that even at that late stage, under existing planning regulations, the plan was meant to have been taken into account. Why will this be any better?
Gavin Barwell: The honest answer is that this will not solve the problem in that very specific case, because as I understand it that appeal was determined days before the examination—