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Baroness Hodgson of Abinger (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 15 September 2025

Debate

Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Contribution

My Lords, Amendment 227C in my name would insert a new clause after Clause 106 creating a duty to declare other approaches to purchase or lease land round about. As the explanatory statement highlights, this is “to ensure that any landowner being approached is aware of whether it is just their land that is the subject of purchase/leasing”, or whether those making the approach are also reaching out to other owners of land in the vicinity for the purpose of the development. Subsection (2) states that the above statement “must include whether the combined amount of land … will be submitted for application as a nationally significant infrastructure project”. Meanwhile, subsection (3) provides a definition of what is meant by “in the vicinity” in this context, namely anything “adjoining or within ten miles of the land intended to be leased or purchased”.

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