Member

I argue—and this picks up the point made by the noble Earl, Lord Clancarty—that putting the agent of change principle into statutory legislation would make the life of local councils and their planning departments much better, and it would help the Government achieve their objectives. If we placed the agent of change principle in legislation, it would significantly shorten the planning process, because it would empower local authorities to have something specific and enforceable to go back to developers with when their plans did not consider existing music or other live entertainment venues.