HC Deb 23 October 1968 vol 770 cc1498-9

Lords Amendment No. 135: In page 60, line 8, after "application" insert "a copy of".

1.30 a.m.

Mr. Skeffington

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said Amendment.

This Amendment deals with a small but important point. Subsection (2) provides that an office development permit shall not be required in support of a planning application for offices ancillary to industry if an industrial development certificate containing conditions restricting the amount of office floor space in the development has been issued. There is no statutory provision which requires the original certificate to be attached to the planning application. The Amendment deals with that.

Question put and agreed to.

Lords Amendment No. 136: In page 60, line 24, at end insert: (5) Development in respect of which there has been issued by the Board of Trade an industrial development certificate with conditions attached thereto by virtue of subsection (1) of this section shall be treated as not included in any reference to 'related development' in section 2 of the Act of 1965 (which makes an office development permit unnecessary if the amount of office floor space to be created is below the prescribed exemption limit, but for this purpose requires that space to be aggregated with office floor space created or to be created in the course of other development affecting the same building or site).

Mr. Skeffington

This Amendment is a safeguard which it is advisable to accept. Section 2 of the Control of Office and Industrial Development Act, 1965, makes an office development permit unnecessary if the amount of office floor space to be created is below the prescribed exemption limit, but for this purpose requires that space to be aggregated with office floor space created or to be created in the course of other development affecting the same building or site. This is known as related development.

Without the Amendment it might be that although the intention, where later development takes place, was that no certificate should be required, because the wording had not been of the kind now proposed a certificate might become necessary because no permission would have been given for the space. The Amendment prevents this occurring.

Question put and agreed to.