Member

That leads on to the point about planning. With great respect to the noble Lord, Lord Sassoon, I do not think that he is right. We are not being asked to open up planning here. We are asking for permission to go through the planning process. This Committee should be very wary of trying to be a planning committee. A planning committee is set up over a number of years, to balance things carefully. These amendments—I say this with respect and in friendship—are simply an attempt to create a two-tier planning system, with one for the rest of the country and one for the Lords. It is not the case that the Lords can somehow rise above the planning system and try to decide things.