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Scottish Government officials met Highland Council officials earlier this year to discuss how the development plan and the council’s development management procedures can best support the objectives of the national renewables infrastructure plan at Nigg.
Local authorities fund those services because they are best placed to assess local needs for advice services and to put in place appropriate provision.
Indeed, I told the principals this morning that nothing is cast in stone and that I was looking to hear proposals and ideas from the colleges about how best this would work. I also stress—I stressed it in my first answer and will do so again—that local access is of strong importance.