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The Committee notes suggestions this should include a requirement to collaborate with local partners to fully explore other options for making best use of existing public assets before this power can be exercised.
Committee reports
Date published:
21 December 2023
However, the Committee is clear that such effective engagement must continue through the expert group and at a local level in areas considering introducing a levy scheme to help ensure that any future schemes work effectively and in the best interests of all relevant stakeholders.
Zero Waste Scotland best practice guidance for local authorities
In February 2023, Zero Waste Scotland published Embedding Circular Economy: An Outline Framework to Support Local Authorities which sets out the crucial role of local authorities in supporting the transition to a circular economy.
Public bodies are required to, in exercising their functions, to act in the way best calculated to help deliver any climate change adaptation programme laid before the Parliament.
Overview
An FM must set out “best estimates of the costs, savings, and changes to revenues to which the provisions of the Bill would give rise, and an indication of the margins of uncertainty in such estimates”1Scottish Parliament. (2022).
The Cabinet Secretary felt it is in local authorities' best interests to ensure take-up by people who are entitled.6Scottish Parliament. (2022, June 23).
It further notes that Grampian already offers an example of best practice in this regard. The Committee therefore calls on the Scottish Government to assess whether optometry can be funded to fulfil this potential and how existing examples of best practice can be replicated more widely across Scotland.
This would help to identify and protect the native woodland we have and direct resources to the best places for enhancement, supporting woodland expansion, for instance, identifying buffer zones around woodlands to allow for natural regeneration.