I think what Janet Finch-Saunders said about policy saying one thing and the reality being something different is very apt. The motion here acknowledges that having strong, national placemaking policies and planning policies, blah, blah, blah—. The reality is that we don't have these things in place. I support the Conservative amendments, saying that the country planning system needs adaptation—it clearly does. I support the Plaid Cymru amendment—the language needs to count and also we need a separate planning inspectorate for Wales. It's basic common sense.

The issue for me with planning, and especially the local development plans, is that our communities in Wales have already been sold out. For people in the west of our capital city, it is too late: 8,000 houses going up and no infrastructure. I dread to think how bad it will be. Local development plans don't work, as my colleague from Caerphilly said—he is completely correct; it's the wrong way around. Every public meeting I go to, of which there are a lot nowadays, housing comes up every single time. Local people cannot afford housing in their locality and the properties that are being thrown up are far too expensive.

The whole planning system needs a huge overhaul. The system allows speculation. Land has been reclassified and a huge amount of money has been made—billions of pounds. I refer you to the Lisvane land deal, which will go down in history really: £39 million lost on just one deal. The irony of planning is that there is no real planning in the system. What you have is basic anarchy, and the developers rule. We are losing really good agricultural land, as has been said, with farms being built on, and if you look at food security in the future, then that's a huge worry. Also, in terms of flooding in certain areas, that's another issue, as concrete is spewed on top of really beautiful country fields and woods at the minute.

Finally, I think the biggest gap in the whole system is a complete lack of democracy, where you have just one or two inspectors who can dictate to whole local authorities, elected by the people. If you look at our experience in the west of Cardiff, where I have a current interest as a councillor and where we ran a referendum, thousands of people voted—thousands—and all those people were ignored, and it's about time that we had community sovereignty in Wales, where communities are sovereign and they decide what happens in their locality, because the rights of people have been ridden roughshod over by this Government and the policies that they've implemented. It's such an irony, because there is a huge disconnect between what is happening on the ground and what is said here, because they bear no resemblance. Diolch yn fawr.