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Claudia Beamish speaks to her amendment relating to safe bike storage and cycling facilities.

The Labour MSP says the parliament's facilities should be emulated through out the country.

She reiterates her point that we are in a climate emergency.

Ms Beamish says the Scottish government gave a woefully unadventurous statement on cycling yesterday and calls for MSPs to back her amendment.

Yesterday Transport Secretary Michael Matheson told MSPs the government was expected to miss its target for 10% of everyday journeys to be made by bike by 2020.

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Lib Dem MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton says his amendment is about future-proofing, saying it will ensure there is adequate IT facility provision.

We aren't talking about the revolution in technology, only fibre broadband he states.

Developers will choose to use copper cables because it is cheaper, he explains, and these will inevitably have to be retrofit for the rollout of 5G.

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Alex Cole-Hamilton highlights a mistake he made in the original drafting of his amendment and brings in his correction Slip to the Marshalled List of Amendments selected for Stage 3.

Mr Stewart persists with his objection.

The minister says he can't support the introduction of detailed active travel requirements in primary legislation, as laid out in Claudia Beamish's amendment.

He calls on the Lib Dem MSP and Claudia Beamish to withdraw their amendments.

We now move to Group 25: Conditional grant of planning permission.

Communities Secretary Kevin Stewart says his amendment brings minor changes to facilitate Changing Places, external toilets.

Mr Stewart says Mr Cole-Hamilton's digital technology measures are "simply daft".

Tory MSP Jeremy Balfour is speaking to his amendment on access panels, which would see greater engagement with disabled people on major developments.

Mr Stewart says the government supports the principle of disabled people being involved more, however he says he cannot support this amendment because not all bodies have access panels.

We will be bringing forward proposals which will also look at engagement after the bill has passed, he states.

Mr Balfour welcomes the remarks and withdraws his amendment.

Kevin Stewart explains he cannot support Ms Beamish's amendment, having supported a previous similar one, suggesting this would lead to duplication.

Ms Beamish's amendment is then rejected by MSPs (yes 32, no 84).

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Labour MSP Claudia Beamish gets us underway again talking to her amendment relating to the assessment of environmental effects.

Ms Beamish says these amendments aim to bring climate change considerations more to the fore in national developments.

The Labour MSP explains she has made adaptions since listening to the minister.

She says the duty in her amendment is placed on the planning authority and she reminds the chamber of the climate emergency declared in Scotland.

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The Planning (Scotland) Bill , externalwas put forward in a bid to overhaul the current planning system and give local people and communities more of a say in the process.

It was pitched by the government as "reforms that will strengthen the planning system's contribution to inclusive growth, housing and infrastructure delivery and empowering communities".

However, all of Holyrood's opposition parties -along with the local government committee- raised concerns about the bill as it was initially drafted.

Many MSPs made it clear that they only voted it through at stage one in the Holyrood chamberso they could make "serious changes"at stage two, back at committee level.

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MSPs back the minister's amendment removing section 14D relating to brownfield sites.

88 MSPs back it, but 32 vote against.

With that Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh tells us we are 35 minutes behind schedule, but calls a short break of up to ten minutes.

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Alex Cole-Hamilton says the Lib Dems support the development of houses but in the right places.

He crticises a development on the "much loved" Cammo estate and other housing developments on the green belt on the outskirts of Edinburgh.

The Lib Dem MSP says developers can build mansions in green belt areas in his constituency rather than building on brownfield land.

Tory MSP Graham Simpson explains why he's changed his view about the Lib Dem proposal, saying Mr Cole-Hamilton has to accept he did not get things quite right at Stage 2.

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The minister speaks to Group 22: Determination of applications: brownfield land.

Brownfield sites are an unused or derelict area of urban land that has been built on previously, which tend to be old industrial area.

Kevin Stewart says there are many problems with Alex Cole-Hamilton's approach which could prevent any development on the green belt.

The green belt is important but is not a blanket restriction, the minister says.

Mr Cole-Hamilton intervenes to say this is a ludicrous claim saying his proposal at Stage 2 would only initiate conversations about land use.

Labour MSP Claudia Beamish turns to the group on renewable energy infrastructure, explaining her amendments seek to give more support to small-scale renewable projects.

I hope all members will support this amendment to allow residents to transfer to a new way of heating and lighting our homes, she concludes.

Mr Stewart says the Scottish government is committed to achieving a net-zero economy but suggests these amendments add complexity and regulatory burden and can therefore not support them.

He points to a review taking place and says it would not be right to preempt that with primary legislation which could only be altered by introducing another bill.

Ms Beamish agrees to have dialogue with the minister about this and withdraws her amendment.

Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh asks the minister to extend the time limit of this section of the debate.

Grame Dey does so with some resistance from colleagues.

Mr Macintosh asks the chamber to agree, to which a "no!" can be heard - and Mr Macintosh warns this will lead to yet another vote.

And so MSPs calm down enough to accept the change to timing unanimously...

Labour MSP Monica Lennon rises to speak to her amendment on the assessment of health effects.

She explains her amendment would ensure issues like housing quality and infrastructure would be looked at for proposed developments.

Kevin Stewart insists the list in the amendment is too prescriptive, though he accepts the intent of it is positive.

Ms Lennon says Mr Stewart did not bring an open mind to engagements and while, she welcomes his praise for Rhoda Grant, she says "we're a team here".

Much to the mirth of the rest of the chamber, which break out into laughter.

"Stay classy, minister," Ms Lennon hits back.

MSPs vote against Mr Wightman's short-term let amendment. 35 MSPs back it and 87 vote against it.

Mr Wightman's amendments to Rachael Hamilton's amendment is rejected with 34 MSPs backing it and 88 against.

Ms Hamilton sees her amendment passed unaltered, with 87 MSPs backing it, 33 against and with two abstentions.

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Green MSP Andy Wightman says he is beyond despair.

He tells the story of an older woman who is the last resident in her close and had naked people running into her flat and having sex in front of her.

This shows the break up of social order caused by this issue he say.

SNP MSP Maureen Watt says the consultation could lead to a better system, to which Mr Wightman says he is not sure Ms Watt has read the consultation.

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Kevin Stewart says he is very aware of the concerns about the affects of housing and flats being used for short-term letting.

The communities minister says these concerns must be addressed without undermining tourism.

He says Mr Wightman is not proposing a modest change, but his amendment would require up to £4.6m for applicants and up to £1.7m for planning authorities.

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The minister says planning decisions and appeals do not always concur with Mr Wightman's argument that all moves to short-term lets are change of use.

Mr Wiightman says the financial argument has bedevilled this conversation, with talk of millions of pounds when only planning authorities can define what is a change of use.

Mr Stewart insists this just Mr Wighman's opinion and he goes on to insist Rachael Hamilton's amendment gives flexibility to councils and promotes localism.