§ Mr. John SilkinI beg to move Amendment No. 240, in page 41, line 38, leave out from 'land' to end of line 42 and insert—
'(a) section 23 of this Act shall not apply to any planning permission in repect of that land which is specified in the direction, and(b) sections 22 and 23 of this Act shall not apply to any planning permission in respect of that land which is subsequently granted by the Secretary of State.'.This is a drafting amendment. The point is that when the Secretary of State gives a direction to dispose of land, any planning permission attached to it which is granted on or after the commencement date and is either specified in the direction or subsequently granted by the Secretary of State, will not be suspended under Clause 23 and the development it permits can therefore proceed.We thought earlier that suspensions under Clause 22 were also covered, because land would already have come into the ownership of an authority so that any suspension under Clause 22 would have been terminated. But as Clause 22 stands, it would still catch planning permissions granted subsequently by the Secretary of State after issuing a direction under Clause 46. An authority could still defeat the whole object of Clause 46 by serving a new notice of intention to acquire a second direction, thus achieving the suspension of the planning permission granted by the Secretary of State.
This amendment remedies the situation.
§ Amendment agreed to.