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I have examples of restorations of previous opencast sites that have been carried out well in East Ayrshire, which include Garleffan and Hannahston, near Drongan.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how it monitors the prevalence and duties of local authority-based Gypsy/Traveller liaison officers. The appointment of Gypsy/Traveller Liaison Officers is the responsibility of individual local authorities and the Scottish Government does not routinely monitor this.
The point that I am trying to make is that when different views are expressed it is incumbent on the Government to sit down, hear those different voices and work out the best way through.
As a member of the Public Audit Committee, chair, you will be aware that I have expressed particular concern about the SPA’s financial management systems and controls.
The matter was also raised in connection with the Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (SSI 2012/303) and the Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit) (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (SSI 2012/319), which I will refer to as the principal regulations.
I think that a very clever and positive thing is going to be done there: it is going to be turned into a visitor centre, so that locals and visitors can visit it to see how it all works.
Ahead of the Control of Dogs (Scotland) Act 2010 coming into force on 26 February 2011, I wrote to Duncan McNeil MSP, convener of the Local Government and Communities Committee to provide a copy of the guidance.