I am glad that City of Edinburgh Council has taken the initiative and hope and expect that Historic Scotland will give the council every help with the meeting.I will not comment on all the council's recommendations, but I am pleased that it has left open the door to any possible transfer of land. I wanted to float the idea in the report simply because it struck me that were Historic Scotland to become even a small landowner through the transfer of land from the council, that might lead to greater involvement and more funding from the organisation.