Member

I also support new clause 46, and I have spoken a number of times about development, particular in my constituency of Broxbourne. As several Members have said, developments come forward, particularly under outline planning permission, painted in gold. As I have said before, there is to be a new school, a new GP surgery, a new road, a park, lots of community facilities and lots of community money, but they are changed completely in the full planning application, because the developer has taken away all the infrastructure, and there is no new GP surgery, no new schools, no new infrastructure and no new community facilities. New clause 46 would go some way to making the infrastructure first, which is what our residents want. When planning permission is granted, it is easier for us as politicians to support it and to get our residents more in favour of it if the infrastructure is going to come first. If our constituents see hundreds of new homes built with no infrastructure, particular no new GP surgeries, that is when they get really fed up.