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Local Government And The Merton Rule

EDM number 80 in 2007-08, proposed by Gregory Barker on 06/11/2007.
Categorised under the topics of Climate change, Energy, Energy conservation, Housing, Industry, Planning and Renewable energy.

That this House supports the Merton Planning Rule requiring onsite renewable energy in all major new developments where viable; notes that onsite renewables such as solar hot water, solar photovoltaics, biomass boilers, small wind turbines and ground source heat pumps are proven technologies with rapidly expanding European and global markets; recognises that the UK languishes unnecessarily near the bottom of the European league table of installed micro renewable energy capacity; acknowledges that onsite renewables will need to make a significant contribution to the EU's 2020 20 per cent. renewable energy target if that target is to be met in the UK; congratulates forward thinking councils for adopting and implementing local planning rules requiring onsite renewable energy in new developments; believes that the Merton rule makes the delivery of the Government's 2016 zero carbon homes timetable more rather than less likely; and therefore urges ministers to ensure that the rights of local planning authorities to set borough-wide Merton rules and other local energy efficiency and renewable energy planning requirements are promoted unambiguously in the forthcoming Climate Change PPS.

This motion has been signed by a total of 70 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Gregory Barker06/11/2007Bexhill and BattleConservativeProposed
Peter Bottomley07/11/2007Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Paul Holmes07/11/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSeconded
Peter Luff07/11/2007Mid WorcestershireConservativeSeconded
Brian Iddon07/11/2007Bolton South EastLabourSeconded
Andrew George07/11/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSeconded
John Pugh08/11/2007SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Bob Russell08/11/2007ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Tom Brake08/11/2007Carshalton and WallingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Clive Efford08/11/2007ElthamLabourSigned
Andrew Stunell08/11/2007Hazel GroveLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis08/11/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Peter Soulsby08/11/2007Leicester SouthLabourSigned
Dai Davies08/11/2007Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Betty Williams12/11/2007ConwyLabourSigned
Katy Clark12/11/2007North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Mike Hancock13/11/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Truswell13/11/2007PudseyLabourSigned
Michael Jabez Foster13/11/2007Hastings and RyeLabourSigned
Derek Conway13/11/2007Old Bexley & SidcupConservativeSigned
Annette Brooke13/11/2007Mid Dorset and North PooleLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Durkan13/11/2007FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Malcolm Moss14/11/2007North East CambridgeshireConservativeSigned
Doug Naysmith14/11/2007Bristol North WestLabourSigned
Janet Dean14/11/2007BurtonLabourSigned
Ben Wallace14/11/2007Lancaster and WyreConservativeSigned
Ian Taylor15/11/2007Esher and WaltonConservativeSigned
Stephen Williams15/11/2007Bristol WestLiberal DemocratSigned
David Howarth15/11/2007CambridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson15/11/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
Oliver Heald19/11/2007North East HertfordshireConservativeSigned
Jim Cousins19/11/2007Newcastle upon Tyne CentralLabourSigned
Ann Cryer19/11/2007KeighleyLabourSigned
Graham Stuart20/11/2007Beverley and HoldernessConservativeSigned
Philip Dunne20/11/2007LudlowConservativeSigned
Michael Fabricant20/11/2007LichfieldConservativeSigned
Andrew Murrison20/11/2007WestburyConservativeSigned
Adam Holloway20/11/2007GraveshamConservativeSigned
John Horam20/11/2007OrpingtonConservativeSigned
Brian Jenkins21/11/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Eleanor Laing21/11/2007Epping ForestConservativeSigned
Neil Gerrard21/11/2007WalthamstowLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff21/11/2007Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small HeathLabourSigned
John Whittingdale21/11/2007Maldon and East ChelmsfordConservativeSigned
John Leech21/11/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Rowen21/11/2007RochdaleLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Ancram22/11/2007DevizesConservativeSigned
Richard Younger-Ross22/11/2007TeignbridgeLiberal DemocratSigned
Jo Swinson22/11/2007East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Cheryl Gillan26/11/2007Chesham and AmershamConservativeSigned
James Duddridge27/11/2007Rochford and Southend EastConservativeSigned
Caroline Spelman28/11/2007MeridenConservativeSigned
Christopher Fraser28/11/2007South West NorfolkConservativeSigned
Robert Walter29/11/2007North DorsetConservativeSigned
Nick Hurd29/11/2007Ruislip - NorthwoodConservativeSigned
David Mundell04/12/2007Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and TweeddaleConservativeSigned
Julian Brazier05/12/2007CanterburyConservativeSigned
John McDonnell11/12/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Eric Illsley13/12/2007Barnsley CentralLabourSigned
Simon Burns17/12/2007West ChelmsfordConservativeSigned
Andrew Selous07/01/2008South West BedfordshireConservativeSigned
Vincent Cable07/01/2008TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
John Bercow08/01/2008BuckinghamConservativeSigned
Eric Pickles09/01/2008Brentwood and OngarConservativeSigned
Menzies Campbell16/01/2008North East FifeLiberal DemocratSigned
Bill Wiggin16/01/2008LeominsterConservativeSigned
Hugo Swire24/01/2008East DevonConservativeSigned
Philip Hammond28/01/2008Runnymede and WeybridgeConservativeSigned
Nick Herbert31/03/2008Arundel and South DownsConservativeSigned
Angela Watkinson19/05/2008UpminsterConservativeSigned

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