§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment (1) what plans he has to ensure that where permission for development of green belt or urban open space land has been refused on appeal there should be a five-year moratorium within which further applications for development of that land will not be entertained;
(2) if he will take steps to ensure that when considering any planning application for development of a given site in 85W green belt or urban open space land in respect of which an earlier permission has been given in the last five years, the planing authority should consider the application in the light of the local plan as if that earlier permission did not exist.
§ Mr. ChopeWe have no present plans to restrict the number or nature of planning applications that may be submitted. There is, however, a general presumption against inappropriate development within green belts, as set out in "Planning Policy Guidance Note 2". An extant planning permission may be, and relevant provisions of a development plan will be, material considerations to which a local planning authority is obliged to have regard when determining a subsequent application for development of the same site.