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B1634 - Transport and Works Bill - 3rd Reading
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Transport and Works Bill

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Combine and simplify the various planning regulations in the United Kingdom; devolve powers to build railways, tramways and create their respective rights of way; reform compulsory purchase orders, and for related purposes.

Due to its length, this bill can be found here.

This Bill was submitted by The Most Hon. Dame Ina LG LT LP LD GCMG DBE CT CVO MP MSP MS MLA FRS on behalf of His Majesty’s 34th Government.

Mr Deputy Speaker,

Before us today lays one of the largest reforms to the bureaucracy of constructing transport systems the United Kingdom has seen in thirty years. We are not only simplifying the system, we are also ensuring that it is more democratic than before and devolving its powers to other governments, so the Scottish and Welsh governments are explicitly empowered according to the rules under this Bill, as well as the empowering local authorities to use orders under this Bill for local construction: for example, London will be able to make investments into the overground network without requiring the assistance of Westminster in doing so, as will Leeds and Sheffield. Indeed, for orders made under this system, we have built in a system of co-financing, ensuring that these councils have the funds available to do these projects, whilst also ensuring that they are encouraged to keep costs reasonable as they themselves have to pay a significant chunk of the cost as well.

We are also strengthening the systems through which the government is empowered to make high-speed railways, specifically by Westminster: as projects of a national scope, we have decided that they ought to be built by Westminster by right, in collaboration with the devolved governments, so that acts are no longer necessary and that orders under this Bill will suffice for such questions. Other transport projects shall be a shared power, meaning both Westminster and the Devolved Nations hold the right to initiate such orders which make the various legal adjustments necessary to create rights of way and enable compulsory purchase along specified routes.

Finally, this act simplifies the process by which such orders can be challenged and inquiries held as to the programmes, where local authorities can gather the claims made and, if they see so fit, challenge the order on the grounds of the feedback they have received within such meetings, whereupon the Secretary of State can make adjustments as necessary. This is a process that stresses the democratic nature of such projects and empowers groups of people whilst disempowering those individuals who may feel that a project is due to harm them personally, such as through the reduction of the property value or other frivolous concerns such as 'visual pollution' and such. As we are in a climate emergency, Deputy Speaker, sometimes we need to make it clear that not every single individual concern can be fully addressed where programmes are made and implemented meant to improve the whole of the nation, a precedent set by our reforms to the Environmental Impact Assessment process.

This Reading will end on the 7th at 10PM.

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