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If we are heavily involved in an investigation by the time of the December visit, that investigation may also throw up one or two issues that we would like to discuss with the visitors.
Every six months, we have meetings with heads of planning. We also visit local authorities regularly. The authorities will have to take the framework into account in formulating their development plans.
For example, in the case of the Glasgow schools project, the successful bidder came up with a proposal that involved 12 new schools when the council expected to get only two new schools.
If the Borders railway is not built, there will still be new housing in the Borders. If we look at Peeblesshire, we see that it is not just the railway that drives new housing.
Our two growth spots are Edinburgh and Aberdeen, but only 26 per cent of major planning applications in Edinburgh are processed in time and the figure is similar for Aberdeen.