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City of Edinburgh Council has prepared a pre-planning brief, which takes account of the importance of the site and how any development might be done sensitively.
In development management, we will require far greater and more structured pre-application consultation of the local community and discussions with the planning authority.
However, I am not sure that we should ever be over-impressed by precedent that has been set in pre-devolution legislation. Because something is missing from the 1993 act, it does not mean that, per se, it is okay to leave it out of the 2005 act.
Given that the negotiations that will take place in the fisheries council in December promise to be even more crucial than the disastrous negotiations of the past two years, it might be useful to take that opportunity to set aside 45 minutes for pre-fisheries council scrutiny. It is important that we do that, because the talks will be crucial.
However, if we can set some priorities that will give us a good start.It has been suggested to me that we have a brief pre-meeting before our next meeting on 25 June, so that we can receive a briefing from the Scottish Parliament information centre on what is available for us and on research that we may want to commission over the summer.
We have an awful lot of work to do, so I wonder why the order has been loaded on to us. The order is probably pre-emptive. I have no doubt that it is and I am sure that it represents good planning, but we have already complained that the officers who service the committee are up to their necks in extra work.