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At the end of the day, I took the view that I had tried my best. The previous chair, as I have said, had left, because UHI did not want to renew his term of office, and I stepped in as interim chair for a period before becoming chair.
As I said, it is for planning authorities to make such decisions, but we are very active in working with them to share best practice and put more resource into the planning system at a macro level across the country.
For constituency members, it is relatively straightforward—we can almost mirror the system in Westminster and improve on it, as I said last week. We could ultimately have the best recall system in the United Kingdom at the end of this.
They are bringing in procedural justice and asking the person in front of them what they think they need. Most people are the best diagnostician of their own condition; they understand what services they need.
When budgets become a constraint, we need better analysis to see how resources can be spent in the best way or how we can avoid increasing inequalities.
Many accepted that the Kintore to Tealing project will go ahead, but they were seeking the best route for that overhead line, in order for it to have the least detrimental impact on residents, the environment and businesses.