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Do you realise the scale of the scepticism that you will have to get over if you are going to give people reasons to get involved in the planning system?
If funds were horizontal, every part of Scotland would get access to assistance. The question is whether we want differential assistance for companies in particularly deprived areas.
If your example were taken literally, someone could enter into negotiations with 115 owners but find that one owner did not agree to any use at all. Essentially, they might have to get out of the water, go down the road and get back in again.
I wonder whether, in that context, we need to do as Wendy Alexander suggested—to get focused expert views in the evidence-taking session—so that we can get down to details with people.