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No. 04/06

MINUTE OF PROCEEDINGS

TUESDAY 23 MAY 2006

The Assembly met at 10.30 am, the Speaker in the Chair

1. Personal Prayer or Meditation

Members observed two minutes’ silence.

2. The Speaker’s Business

2.1 The Speaker advised Members that the Secretary of State had directed that the Assembly should sit on Tuesday 23 May 2006 at 10.30am to consider business as it appears on the Order Paper.

3. Private Members’ Business

3.1 Motion – Rural Planning Policy – to cease implementation of PPS 14

Proposed:

That this Assembly condemns the unilateral method by which the document ‘Draft Planning Policy Statement 14, Sustainable Development in the Countryside’ was introduced and calls on the Secretary of State to cease implementation of PPS 14 pending a comprehensive review of rural planning policy to develop a balanced policy for the sustainability of rural society and the environment.

That, in the interim, all rural planning applications received since 16 March 2006 be considered under the application policy: A Planning Strategy for Rural Northern Ireland (1993).

[Mr P McGlone]
[Mr T Gallagher]

3.2 Amendment

Proposed:

Leave out all after ‘Assembly’ and insert:

‘notes the publication of the Draft Planning Policy Statement 14 ‘Sustainable Development in the Countryside’ and calls upon the Business Committee to establish a working party to develop a balanced policy for the sustainable development of the countryside and the protection of the environment.’

[Mr J Wells]

Debate ensued.

The Sitting was, by leave, suspended at 12.06 pm.

The Sitting resumed at 2.30 pm.

The Speaker in the Chair.

After debate, the Amendment being put, the Amendment was made (Division 1).

The Question being put, the Motion, as amended, was carried (Division 2).

4. Adjournment

4.1 Proposed: That the Assembly do now adjourn.

[The Speaker]

The Assembly adjourned at 4.24 pm.

  Mrs Eileen Bell
The Speaker
23 May 2006

 

 

23 MAY 2006

DIVISIONS

Division No 1

Rural Planning Policy – to cease implementation of PPS 14 - Amendment

Proposed:

Leave out all after ‘Assembly’ and insert:

‘notes the publication of the Draft Planning Policy Statement 14 ‘Sustainable Development in the Countryside’ and calls upon the Business Committee to establish a working party to develop a balanced policy for the sustainable development of the countryside and the protection of the environment.’

[Mr J Wells]

The Question was put and the Assembly divided.

Ayes : 36
Noes : 18

Ayes

Billy Armstrong, Roy Beggs, Paul Berry, Thomas Buchanan, Gregory Campbell, Wilson Clyde, Michael Copeland, Robert Coulter, Leslie Cree, George Dawson, Kieran Deeny, Diane Dodds, Nigel Dodds, Tom Elliot, Reg Empey, David Ervine, Arlene Foster, Samuel Gardiner, William Hay, David Hilditch, Danny Kennedy, William McCrea, Alan McFarland, Michael McGimpsey, Maurice Morrow, Stephen Moutray, Ian Paisley Jnr, Edwin Poots, George Robinson, Ken Robinson, Mark Robinson, Jim Shannon, David Simpson, Mervyn Storey, Peter Weir, Jim Wells.

Tellers for the Ayes: Jim Wells and Billy Armstrong.

Noes

Alex Attwood, Dominic Bradley, Mary Bradley, P J Bradley, Thomas Burns, John Dallat, Sean Farren, Tommy Gallagher, Carmel Hanna, Dolores Kelly, Patricia Lewsley, Kieran McCarthy, Alasdair McDonnell, Patsy McGlone, Eugene McMenamin, Alban Maginness, Pat Ramsey, Margaret Ritchie.

Tellers for the Noes: Eugene McMenamin and P J Bradley.

The Amendment was made.

 

 

23 MAY 2006

DIVISIONS

Division No 2

Rural Planning Policy – to cease implementation of PPS 14 – Motion as amended

Proposed:

That this Assembly notes the publication of the Draft Planning Policy Statement 14 ‘Sustainable Development in the Countryside’ and calls upon the Business Committee to establish a working party to develop a balanced policy for the sustainable development of the countryside and the protection of the environment.

[Mr J Wells]

The Question was put and the Assembly divided.

Ayes : 35
Noes : 17

Ayes

Billy Armstrong, Roy Beggs, Paul Berry, Thomas Buchanan, Gregory Campbell, Wilson Clyde, Michael Copeland, Robert Coulter, Leslie Cree, George Dawson, Kieran Deeny, Diane Dodds, Nigel Dodds, Tom Elliot, David Ervine, Arlene Foster, Samuel Gardiner, William Hay, David Hilditch, Danny Kennedy, William McCrea, Alan McFarland, Michael McGimpsey, Maurice Morrow, Stephen Moutray, Ian Paisley Jnr, Edwin Poots, George Robinson, Ken Robinson, Mark Robinson, Jim Shannon, David Simpson, Mervyn Storey, Peter Weir, Jim Wells.

Tellers for the Ayes: Jim Wells and Billy Armstrong.

Noes

Alex Attwood, Dominic Bradley, Mary Bradley, P J Bradley, Thomas Burns, John Dallat, Sean Farren, Tommy Gallagher, Carmel Hanna, Dolores Kelly, Patricia Lewsley, Alasdair McDonnell, Patsy McGlone, Eugene McMenamin, Alban Maginness, Pat Ramsey, Margaret Ritchie.

Tellers for the Noes: Eugene McMenamin and P J Bradley.

The Motion, as amended, was carried.
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