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On behalf of the planning profession, I must admit that our performance in preparing and keeping statutory development plans up to date is not good. The real worry is that, when the park plan becomes out of date, the scope for inconsistency becomes even greater.
We would want to have some discussion with Audit Scotland before we commit ourselves to a date. The strong indication is that we want to move that date forward from around Christmas, which is when it has been.
Although Opposition members have trivialised the fact that dates have been set, I suspect that they will be very quick to latch on to them if— peradventure—any of those dates should slip.
If not, we need to find alternative and more complex ways of arranging things, but many people back off from that approach.The idea of a bank of staff already exists in the direct payments scheme.
Margaret Curran had better be saving up the pennies in her piggy-bank if we are to meet the requirements in that area; the issue is as huge as the red sandstone redevelopment and rehabilitation that took place in the 1970s and 1980s.