The RTPI is on the advisory group—the reference group. We were charged with improving the understanding of air quality among planners and ensuring that there is a link between planning and other professions.
As I mentioned, one of the key parts of that work has been to publish guidance for planners, which we did last year with Environmental Protection Scotland. We also held a conference to bring together air quality people with planners, to break down some barriers and to allow people to get different perspectives and an idea of who has done what and what the constraints and opportunities are.
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In the past, we have also worked with SEPA to look at training, although that is not yet where we want it to be. We want to make sure that it is understood that planners do not sit in isolation, which is how they are portrayed, but that they work with others across local authorities and community planning partnerships. There is a bit of work to be done on that.
We have tried to publicise that within the profession as well, through the journal Scottish Planner. We wrote an article on the guidance, and we generally try to tie in air quality much more to the way that we work as a profession. There has been some movement in our doing that.
We also need to make sure that air quality is seen as a key component of the review of the national planning framework and the review of Scottish planning policy, both of which were originally going to happen in 2019 but have been pushed back to 2020. There are references to air pollution in the current versions of both of those reviews, but, as they were published pre-CAFS, we need to make sure that CAFS is mainstreamed into the review documents. We will work to do that as far as we can.