Member

Under this amendment, the intention would flip in the other direction. The Minister can call it in if he feels that the local planning authority may be wrong in refusing the application—for example, if it is insisting on environmental protection—and instead overturn it, or at least consider whether the decision should be called in, in favour of development. I am anxious about that, because the current climate appears to be that the environment is wrong and development is right. That is a sort of modern-day version of reds under the bed.