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You highlighted a superb example: suddenly, the local authority—which is now the planning authority that will judge whether a nuclear waste site is appropriate in planning terms—comments on whether the nuclear waste site should indeed be there.
Over the past eight or nine years, I have worked at the sharp end of delivering this type of programme. LEADER is an acronym—liaison entre actions pour le développement de l'économie rurale, if you will pardon my French.
For example, the community on Iona that I mentioned has identified a site that it could get, but it is having difficulty getting money from the Scottish land fund to buy the site and to secure it.