On 10 October the second reading of the Neighbourhood Planning Bill has been held in Parliament, with the next stage being committee reading in the House of Commons.
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Sajid Javid) clarified issues regarding the status of the Land Registry and said ‘measures on the Land Registry are not part of the Bill, and the decision on privatisation will be for the Government to make in the future; it will not form part of this Bill, nor will it be introduced into the Bill in any shape or form at a later date’
Teresa Pearce (MP for Erith and Thamesmead) criticised the government, noting that ‘This is the sixth piece of legislation in the past six years to make provision for planning. Another Bill passes and the Government fail adequately to resource planning departments, which have faced a 46% cut in funding over the past five years’
View the full debate in Hansard
View the progress of the bill
