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Sustainable Development To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that sustainable development is a primary consideration within all its policies and programmes.
(S1O-616) The Minister for Transport and the Environment (Sarah Boyack): Land use planning and development in the area of Portmoak airfield is a matter for Perth and Kinross Council acting under national and local development control policy.
That is what the petitioners were aiming their petition at. Wind farm development is becoming very expansive. I understand that there are 33 applications in the Borders; development is focused on that area because of the accessibility to the national grid.
Will the minister clarify whether we are continuing to develop Stranraer and the road to it—which badly needs development—or whether an alternative site on the Ayrshire coast is being considered?
Given those facts, will the minister at least clarify that any funding that is required to implement the findings of the Mouchel study will be new funding, rather than funds diverted from the costs of already proposed improvement schemes?