Growth and Infrastructure Bill

Tim Loughton Excerpts

Tuesday 16th April 2013 Commons Chamber

[Mr Pickles]

I think that it would be best for my hon. Friend to wait until the omelette has started to settle. He may care to cross-examine me further then.

[Tim Loughton (East Worthing and Shoreham) (Con)]

I do not know about omelettes, but the Secretary of State is making a very soft-boiled case for supporting the Government, and I am really trying hard. I do not know about him, but I hear complaints from many of my constituents, at my surgeries or through local councillors, that their neighbours have extended the remit of their planning permissions in terms of height, length or type. How many more complaints does he think will be made to us when planning permission is no longer required for a development that a neighbour would regard as completely unacceptable and antisocial?

[Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Lindsay Hoyle)]

Order. We must have shorter interventions.