Extract from MHCLG topical questions Steve Reed (Croydon North)
(Lab/Co-op): The Campaign to Protect Rural England the National
Trust, the Town and Country Planning Association, the Royal
Institute of British Architects, the Royal Town Planning Institute
and others have all condemned the Secretary of State’s planning
reforms for handing too much control to developers and blocking
communities from objecting to individual applications in areas
zoned for growth or for renewal. Given their...Request free trial
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topical questions
(Croydon
North) (Lab/Co-op): The Campaign to Protect Rural England
the National Trust, the Town and Country Planning
Association, the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Royal
Town Planning Institute and others have all condemned the Secretary
of State’s planning reforms for handing too much control to
developers and blocking communities from objecting to individual
applications in areas zoned for growth or for renewal. Given their
increased donations to the Conservative party, is he paying back
developers by selling out communities?
The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local
Government (): Once again, the hon. Gentleman
makes a low point. What we are doing is getting people on to the
housing ladder. Once, the Labour party cared about young people,
people on low incomes and people on social housing waiting lists,
but those days are long gone. The Conservative party is the party
of home ownership. This is the party standing up for the millions
of people whose jobs depend on housing and construction. This is
the party supporting the brickies and the electricians—the people
out there trying to earn a good day’s living. The hon. Gentleman
needs to get his priorities straight and support people who are
working hard, trying to get on the housing ladder and trying to get
this country going again after the pandemic...
Extracts from Westminster
Hall debate on Trespass
(Wirral West) (Lab) [V]:...In January this
year, a number of organisations—including the Campaign to Protect Rural England
Friends of the Earth and the Ramblers Association—wrote to
the Home Secretary, arguing that making trespass a criminal offence
is
“an extreme, illiberal and unnecessary attack on ancient
freedoms.”
They warned that
“It would send a signal that the countryside is not an open
resource accessible to all, but a place of complex rules and
regulations, where stepping off a public path could lead to a
criminal sentence.”..
(Sheffield, Hallam) (Lab) [V]:...Our debate
on the petition is well timed, although delayed. It takes place
between two dates that are important to my city and my
constituency, and which have significance for the whole country.
The first date fell on Saturday 17 April, which marked the 70th
anniversary of the Peak District national park, which was the first
such park in the UK. The foundations of the park were built by my
constituent Ethel Haythornthwaite, who was born in 1894. After
falling in love with the beauty of the countryside surrounding our
city, she founded the Sheffield Association for the Protection of
Local Countryside, which would later become the Peak district and
South Yorkshire branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England
Throughout her life, she directed a host of campaigns to
defend the use by everyone of the green spaces in and around
Sheffield...
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