HC Deb 11 November 1980 vol 992 cc400-1

Lords amendment: No. 114, in page 111, line 24, at end insert— (4A) In relation to an urban development corporation which is the local planning authority by virtue of an order under subsection (1) above, section 270 of the 1971 Act (application to local planning authorities of provisions as to planning control and enforcement) shall have effect for the purposes of Part III of the 1971 Act prescribed by that order, and in relation to the kinds of development so prescribed, as if—

  1. (a) in subsection (1), the reference to the development by local authorities of land in respect of which they are the local planning authorities included a reference to the development by the corporation of land in respect of which it is the local planning authority;
  2. (b) in subsection (2)—
    1. (i) in paragraph (a) the words "the corporation" were substituted for the words "such an authority" and the word "corporation" were substituted for the words "local planning authority"; and
    2. (ii) in paragraph (b) the word "corporation" were substituted for the words "local planning authority"."

Mr. Fox

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

Mr. Deputy Speaker

With this it will be convenient to take Lords amendment No. 115.

Mr. Fox

Amendment No. 114 clears up an anomaly in the Bill, whereby an urban development corporation cannot, under the present provisions, have recourse to the power under section 270 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 available to a local authority acting as a local planning authority. The amendment will enable an urban development corporation similarly to obtain deemed planning permission for the development of land in respect of which it is made a local planning authority by order under clause 134(1).

Amendment No. 115 will enable an urban development corporation in Scotland to obtain deemed planning permission for the development of land for which it is made the planning authority under clause 143(5).

Question put and agreed to.

Lords Amendment No. 115 agreed to.

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