After its third reading and with several amendments, the bill has now passed back to the Commons.
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Amendments included the necessity of ‘engagement by examiners with qualifying bodies etc’ and relating to the ‘development of new towns by local authorities’ with the aim of ’empowering local government communities to bring forward settlements of the highest quality, ensuring that the value that ?comes from development taking place is captured to create great places and deliver wonderful facilities for those places and is not captured in excessive profits for landowners or developers’..
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