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Lord Lucas (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 9 September 2025

Debate

Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Contribution

Those are not strategic plans at all; they are just bits. You are not actually producing a Sussex strategic plan at all; you are producing a north Sussex strategic plan. There is no provision for the south Sussex strategic plan here, because it is just the ordinary planning functions of the national park. When we are trying to produce a unified structure across the UK, it seems really odd to fracture it in this way. The solution I propose, using the Section 12B strategic planning boards as having the main authority, with the national park on that board—there is no reason why they should have equality, but they should be part of that—produces a structure that is a strategic planning authority that covers the whole area. That surely is the sensible way of doing it. This is really something we must return to on Report. It is ridiculous the way it is, but I beg leave to withdraw the amendment for now.

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