4. 4. Motion under Standing Order 26.91 Seeking the Assembly's Agreement to Introduce a Member Bill on Protection of Historic Place Names

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:40 pm on 15 March 2017.

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Photo of Huw Irranca-Davies Huw Irranca-Davies Labour 2:40, 15 March 2017

I thank the Cabinet Secretary for giving way and, of course, I wasn’t here when that Act, as it now is, was taken forward. What are the implications of that, whether it’s a local authority or a developer in a local area, in terms of having due regard to that list of names? Because, as you say, it cannot be utterly definitive. Even in my own area I know of areas of attractive woodland that have two, possibly three, different names that are used by local people and have been used for generations. But what is the practical effect of that on somebody proposing some sort of development or, for example, on the Ordnance Survey map?