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That said, genuine concerns have been expressed to me. I have had about three dozen emails and have responded to them all, and I have been in touch with Chief Constable House.
We have tended to call in applications for wind turbines where genuine concerns have been expressed about their impact on aviation safety or the safety of individuals and communities but, as I have said, notification does not automatically mean that the application is called in.
The courageous thing for Scottish Enterprise to do, instead of producing a report setting out 12 possibilities for port infrastructure sites, would have been to place a bet on one of them.
A simple, cheap and effective way of reducing urban traffic congestion is park-and-ride sites. Near Edinburgh, two new park-and-ride sites have opened over the past couple of years—one at Ingliston and one at Hermiston.
The proposed changes on bus registration might shorten the timescale for doing that.Also, there is the potential to move from a de minimis threshold to utilising best value.