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A letter from the Minister for Justice, Mr Jim Wallace, dated October 2002, is relevant in this regard, but it did not clarify for me points that the committee raised in the report.
Unless we have a planning system that is more responsive in its ability to keep development plans up to date, we will not be well served. That is a big focus of attention for the planning bill.
You mentioned several times that the new unified board was established only on 1 October 2001. On almost exactly the same date, the decision was taken to set up the pan-Lothian review group.
We produced a document at a meeting in November: "Good Practice Guide to Consultation in Dumfries And Galloway", dated 1998. Clearly, the council's representatives had not followed it, if indeed they had heard of it.
The financial position over the Skye bridge must be reviewed with extreme caution.Enormous amounts of money have gone into the Skye bridge. To date, at least £30 million of public money has been channelled through Highland Council into the Skye bridge.
It removes the previous provision in section 15(2)(b), which provided for a minimum 21-month period from the date when the scheme was made until the date when it was to come into operation, and replaces it with a completely new provision.