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In Peebles, we are dealing with similar planning issues about the site's suitability—it is not on a flood plain but on a slope—and similar issues of access, because the proposed site is on the edge of town.
To my knowledge, those are both outwith coal-sourcing areas—Bridge of Earn would be 10 or 15 miles away from the nearest opencast site—so does it make sense? It is not necessarily for coal.
However, it is not for us to determine individually whether someone ought to pay more tax on one site than would be paid on another site for reasons that, privately, we might think are right or wrong.
I urge the industry to take up Sylvia's suggestion to revisit existing sites. It knows where they are. It knows the masts that are on controversial sites.
Does the minister share my concerns that the Medical Staff Association was not consulted about the proposals to reduce the ACAD unit from 10 acres on a greenfield site to a two-acre site on the hospital's car park?
The issues are orthodox: the visual impact, the impact on the landscape, whether access can be gained to the site, whether the site needs separate access and whether power can be supplied to the site.
We were due to have an Executive official in attendance, but the lady in question is not very well this morning, so we do not have an official present.