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Last month, the SPCB awarded a contract to secure an architect-led team to produce a design for an external screening facility for visitors. No money has yet been spent on the contract.
As the committee will be well aware, the transmission regime is discriminatory for the more rural areas; there is a huge up-front cost in being able to access the grid. The ability to de-risk such investments would enable more local authorities to pursue community renewables, as, indeed, would the wider ability to de...
I remind John Scott that the concordat with local government ensures that the de-ring fencing of a substantial amount of funds has given local authorities the ability to deliver their local economic development function.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 August 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what plans ministers have to visit Gypsy/Traveller sites in The Highland Council area. There are currently no plans for Scottish Government Ministers to visit Gypsy/Traveller sites in the Highland council area.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to include the six black guillemot sites, three sandeel sites and the Firth of Forth Banks Complex as part of the proposed marine protected areas to be designated in 2014.
We now have in operation 27 hydro schemes, 18 small-scale wind turbines, 17 photovoltaic solar sites and two combined heat and power sites, and we are continuing to drive that work.
We wanted to start by getting the biggest bang for our buck—if I may use a crude American expression—so only the most difficult properties will be left.
If that is the case, a system and framework are in place that allow the Scottish Government to provide support and intervention, with the intention of de-escalating a board’s level and moving that part of the system back to a more stable footing.