Thank you, Presiding Officer. I'd really like to thank Members for their contributions to the debate this afternoon. I think the broad range of topics that we have discussed exemplifies the broad scope of the planning system and how it can affect our lives in many ways. As Mike Hedges referred to, it's often a very large post box that we receive as Assembly Members.

If I could just turn to the amendments first, David Melding will be very pleased that we are supporting both of the Conservative amendments. The reason being that, with respect, I don't think they add a great deal to the original motion, but we are supporting both of them, and I very much look forward—[Interruption.] That's fine. I certainly look forward to reading the document that you're going to bring forward. I certainly won't be at your conference, but I'd be very interested if you would send me a copy of the document.

Plaid Cymru's amendment 3, we will be opposing. Technical advice note 20 does provide detailed advice on implementing planning law, and that includes the Planning (Wales) Act 2015, to enable planning authorities to take lawful decisions on planning applications. As you know, Siân Gwenllian, TAN 20 was issued last autumn and it does provide local planning authorities, developers and communities with clarity on how the language can be supported and protected by the planning system. The role of the Welsh Government is to set national planning policies. It's for local planning authorities, who I think are best placed, to develop local policies and take decisions affecting their local areas. I think it needs to bed in, and you talked about a separate planning inspectorate. Again, I'm very happy to keep that under review, and I'm sure we will have further discussions on that.

Last week, we had an early meeting around the national development framework and you know that the preferred option outlines the key issues that that will address, and cohesive communities and the Welsh language, again, are an absolutely central element of the strategy.

What is clear, I think, from everybody's contributions is that we need an efficient, well-resourced planning system in Wales if all these competing issues can be considered in a timely manner by professionals who have the best needs of the communities they serve at heart. There's a great deal of activity happening in the planning sphere at the moment. We're consulting on our national planning policies in 'Planning Policy Wales', as I said in my opening remarks, along with the direction in which our NDF will take the next 20 years and how our new consenting powers as a result of the Wales Act will be implemented. I'll also be shortly consulting on changes to permitted development rights. That will reduce the need for planning permissions in certain circumstances, as well as continuing our work on consolidating planning law in Wales to make it easier to use and navigate. I do accept that making high-level policy changes is a relatively simple task, but what I want to look at is the best way to implement this change in outlook and to make sure that local authority officers and the built environment professions operating in Wales, whether it's in the public or the private sectors, embrace this new way of thinking.

If I can just turn to some specific contributions from Members, in defence of the Planning Inspectorate, Mike Hedges, they are independent, they do take decisions in accordance with both local and national planning policies, and they cannot take decisions perversely. Gareth Bennett made the case for placemaking, about all houses and transport and jobs being integrated and more sustainable, and that's exactly what 'Planning Policy Wales' is promoting. I think a lack of strategic planning is something that I highlighted with all local planning authorities across Wales. I wrote to them back in December about that lack of strategic planning.

If I can turn to TAN 1—and I think Janet Finch-Saunders might have missed this—I did announce my intention to undertake a wide-ranging review of the interrelationships between the LDP process and the monitoring of housing land supply, and to examine the issue in a much more systematic and considered way. Hefin David, I'm delighted that you're delighted. I want to correct that I'm only consulting on my intention to disapply paragraph 6.2 of TAN 1, not the whole of TAN 1, just to make that very clear. But I think it is important that we do help alleviate some of the immediate pressures that there are on local planning authorities when they're dealing with speculative planning applications for housing.

You referred to the south-east Wales strategic development plan. I met with several of the leaders a couple of weeks ago, but I am still awaiting further proposals. But it was a very positive meeting, and, if they can all come together, they need to decide on which local authority is going to lead. But it was a positive meeting, so, hopefully, when the plan does come to me, it will be a very positive one also.

Neil McEvoy referred to local democracy working and that's why it's so important that each local planning authority has an LDP in place. Obviously, we're encouraging strategic development plans to come forward, too. I think Lee Waters makes a very important point about loneliness and the ability I mentioned in my opening remarks to be able to open the door and walk to meet your friend or your family and be able to do things without relying on cars. You mentioned the active travel cross-party group, who have put forward a proposal to the PPW consultation, and I think you called it the 'paucity' of officials in local planning authorities being able to assess the active travel, and that's something that we need to look at too.

So, in conclusion, Presiding Officer, I believe the changes in policy and practice we are leading on as a Government can be the start of real change in this sector, and people and places become the foremost consideration in development decisions that affect our everyday lives. Diolch.