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Are you concerned that, if Strathdon becomes part of the national park, people will find it even more difficult to get planning permission for new housing developments?
I think that it is worth while and an inevitable consequence of the creation of a new Parliament in 1999. If we get it right, it will pay huge dividends.
We have heard that we have waited for 40 years; we could surely wait until after the summer if that would mean the difference between getting it right and getting it wrong.
I particularly welcome Dr Sam Jones, who will be our new clerk team leader. She has come to us from the Northern Ireland Office and will sit in on today's meeting to get an idea of what she has let herself in for.