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00:00 The development consent order process, ironically, was designed to enable the Secretary of State
00:06 to grant planning consent to matters of national infrastructure and national importance without
00:18 the interference from local authority, local objectors, so that people could actually get
00:23 on and create the jobs and create the wealth, create the boost in the economy that we all
00:29 want to see, or 98% of us want to see. It is a nonsense. The judicial review process
00:36 has been abused over and over again, and I think that this or a future law minister is
00:44 going to have to take this in hand and deal with it. It is absolutely right that people
00:50 should be able to challenge in law either unlawful decisions or bad decisions, I suppose.
01:00 But it is equally wrong that people should be able to use the law to over and over and
01:05 over again frustrate the will of the people. That is what is happening in this case. It
01:10 has happened, and at the moment it continues. I would like to think that the handful of
01:17 people who have bought houses under the flight path in Ramsgate, knowing that there has been
01:26 an airfield at Manston for 100 years, it is not as if this was something new. People who
01:33 buy houses on the edge of airfields expect aircraft to come in and out, and they have
01:40 done this knowingly and wittingly, believing that somehow they could frustrate the process.
01:44 me that is quite wrong.