Member

Time in Committee has not permitted a proper examination of the ways in which we should use this legislation. Time should permit us, before the end of the year, to take on board some of the recommendations of the Cunliffe report. Some are relevant. For example, recommendation 74 talks about extending permitted development rights for water companies. We should certainly look at that. Recommendation 40 talks about changing some of the planning regulations relating to water reuse. We should certainly pick that up to drive water reuse infrastructure in the new developments that we are bringing forward. I hope that will go into some of our planning thinking. Recommendations 72 and 73 say that we should support the timely delivery of water industry infrastructure through the planning processes. I hope that this first part of the Bill and the national infrastructure project will do exactly that.