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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 11 September 2025

Debate

Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Contribution

Secondly, allowing a provision that a draft local plan that has reached regulation 18 stage—which is a relatively early stage in the local plan process—does not need to be consistent with an SDS could significantly weaken the value of producing the SDS, given the time it would then take to produce the next local plan to be consistent with the SDS.

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