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Environment and Sustainability Committee |
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Committee Room 3 - Senedd |
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Meeting date: |
Wednesday, 14 January 2015 |
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Meeting time: |
09.35 - 12.20 |
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Concise Minutes: |
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Assembly Members: |
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Alun Ffred Jones AM (Chair) Mick Antoniw AM Jeff Cuthbert AM Russell George AM Llyr Gruffydd AM Julie Morgan AM William Powell AM Jenny Rathbone AM Antoinette Sandbach AM Joyce Watson AM |
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Witnesses: |
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Carl Sargeant AM, The Minister for Natural Resources Sarah Dawson, Welsh Government Neil Hemington, Welsh Government Dion Thomas, Welsh Government |
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Committee Staff: |
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Alun Davidson (Clerk) Peter Hill (Deputy Clerk) Lisa Salkeld (Legal Adviser) Graham Winter (Researcher) |
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Transcript
View the meeting transcript.
1 Introductions, apologies and substitutions
1.1 There were no apologies.
2 Planning (Wales) Bill: Stage 1 - Evidence session 14
2.1 The Minister and officials responded to questions from members of the Committee.
2.2 The Minister agreed to provide:
· further information on how training opportunities for strategic planning will be delivered;
· examples of occasions when a planning application has been considered by both a national park authority and a local authority, with different conclusions;
· further information on links to statutory transport planning and marine planning; and
· a summary of the outcome of the consultation on Design in the Planning Process.
3 Papers to note
Planning (Wales) Bill: Correspondence from the Minister for Natural Resources - 10 December
3.1 Members noted the correspondence.
Planning (Wales) Bill: Correspondence from the Minister for Natural Resources - 7 January
3.2 Members noted the correspondence.
Planning (Wales) Bill: Correspondence from the Minister for Natural Resources - 9 January
3.3 Members noted the correspondence.
Planning (Wales) Bill: Correspondence from the Presiding Officer
3.4 Members noted the correspondence.
Planning (Wales) Bill: Correspondence from Wales Environment Link
3.5 Members noted the correspondence.
Planning (Wales) Bill: Additional evidence from the Law Society
3.6 Members noted the additional evidence.
Planning (Wales) Bill: Correspondence from National Parks Wales
3.7 Members noted the correspondence.
Planning (Wales) Bill: Additional evidence from the Home Builders Federation
3.8 Members noted the additional evidence.
Planning (Wales) Bill: Additional evidence from Gwynedd Council
3.9 Members noted the additional evidence.
Animal welfare: Correspondence from the Deputy Minister for Farming and Food
3.10 Members noted the correspondence.
Correspondence from the Minister for Natural Resources in relation to European Commission Reasoned Opinions
3.11 Members noted the correspondence.
The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Bill: Correspondence from the Older People's Commissioner for Wales
3.12 Members noted the correspondence.
The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Bill: Correspondence from the Royal College of Physicians
3.13 Members noted the correspondence.
4 Motion under Standing Order 17.42 to resolve to exclude the public from the remainder of the meeting
4.1 The Committee agreed the Motion.
5 Planning (Wales) Bill: Discussion of evidence
5.1 Committee members discussed the evidence.