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- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Can I speak on those first because I have not actually got to address those? I am only up to No. 427.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Fair enough.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I would like to continue because I am up as far as amendment No. 427. Amendment No. 427 is related to page 110 of the Bill and relates to settlement-specific objectives. Further up, section 51(1)(c) references providing a map identifying various settlement-specific objectives.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 427.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Is amendment No. 427 in this group?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Sorry about that.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 448 is in this group.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 448 relates to page 118 of the Bill, which lists various strategies to be included in the review and preparation of a development plan. I am looking for the inclusion of a strategy on active travel networks. My amendments align with transport-orientated development and the hierarchy of road users model. There does not appear to be a strategy around active travel in the Bill....
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Let us go to the Minister of State for a response.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: The Bill references various strategies on page 118, including a proper planning and sustainable development strategy, a strategy for sustainable development, a housing development strategy, a strategy for economic development, a strategy for creation and improvement, and a strategy for conservation and protection. Maybe I am missing it, but where is the active travel network strategy? Where...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: What part of the Bill is the Minister of State referring to?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I see it. It is section 42(2)(b) because we were discussing that-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Amendment No. 337 referenced that. The Department will look at the local transport plan to ensure it is included. It hinges on that. If the local transport plan is to be defined as an active travel, cycling and pedestrian plan, then that is covered under section 42. However, this is about a notice of intention to review a development plan and preparation of a draft development plan. Is...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I can understand that. The notice of intention to review a development plan and preparation of a draft development plan under section 52 lists seven strategies that should be issued by the chief executive. Are all those strategies aligned with all the strategies under section 42? I am getting a nod that they do. I do not see specific-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Why is the strategy stated in section 42 under different headings? Different strategies are required but they are not exactly aligned. I do not see a transport strategy in the terms of a review. There is an economic strategy, a housing strategy, and a sustainable development strategy under section 42 but I do not see a transport strategy. Section 42(1) states: "a strategy for the...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I see what the Minister of State means. The strategy that I suggested should be put in is covered by section 42, which is more detailed than what has just been highlighted. I will move to amendment No. 481, which is to do with the review of a development plan, or an interim report on the implementation of a development plan. My suggestion is, as part of that review, that "an outline of...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: I do not know. If there is a review of the development plan, and it should be remembered we now have ten-year plans as well, it most likely occurs at the halfway stage. Does the Bill specify that transport patterns have to be assessed, including whether the modal shift to sustainable transport modes is being achieved? How do we know that the transport strategies we are employing are working?
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Would it necessarily be recorded? I can just imagine that if that review was put before me, it probably would not include modal shift.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: Can we specify? We need to give direction on some of these assessments or interim reviews. Again, we are talking about transport. It is the hardest nut to crack in our sustainability challenge.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)
Steven Matthews: That would be included in those strategies?