HC Deb 28 July 1961 vol 645 cc819-20

1.0 p.m.

Sir K. Joseph

I beg to move, in page 34, line 46, at the end to insert: or under subsection (2) of this section to give a notice applying to anything erected in conformity with planning permission granted on an application under Part III of that Act". I had thought that the Amendment in line 22, to leave out Clause 45, in the name of the hon. Member for Feltham (Mr. Hunter) was to be taken with this one, Mr. Deputy-Speaker.

Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Major Sir William Anstruther-Gray)

I should make it clear to the House that the Amendment in the name of the hon. Member for Feltham (Mr. Hunter) has not been selected.

Sir K. Joseph

The Amendment refers to subsection (2), which gives a local authority power to require the suppression of any development in a forecourt which is injurious to amenity. On reflection, it has been thought that such a development may have had planning permission, and it would be unfair to the recipient of that permission—and we are bound to assume that in giving it the amenity arguments would have been taken into account—for the local authority then to come along in another hat, or for another local authority to come along, and require the removal of the development which has already been given planning permission. It is to avoid that danger that the Amendment is moved.

Mr. A. E. Hunter (Feltham)

The question was raised with me and I put down my Amendment so that it could be discussed by the Committee. The Government Amendment fully covers the points that I wished to raise.

Amendment agreed to.