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The Corporate Body was responsible for the resources used by the Parliament in supporting the visit to Aberdeen and it will wish to review how the exercise was managed and financed.
The home closed down, its elderly residents were redistributed and the property was sold on.Clearly, the new owners were well aware that they could convert the premises into a heroin detox hospital using the planning permission that had been granted for the retirement home.
Perhaps we are aware of those issues in a way that the Justice 1 Committee is not. The idea of buying ourselves another week is to allow members to do a bit more reading on the topic so that, when we submit our comments to the Justice 1 Committee, we will have had a bit of space to think through what our priorities are.
We might find at the end of the review that there was a requirement to rescind the planning permission in order to allow a new application to be submitted. The only way in which a local authority can properly apply new regulations is for a new application to be submitted, whic...
Our Scottish Parliament information centre researchers are considering a number of ways of doing that for the groups we visit. The suggestion is to split members into reporter groups.