Mr. Paddy Mathews:

We want to ensure that any view we take is evidence-based and part of that will involve our looking at where fracking has taken place elsewhere and, most importantly, what visitor reactions are to it. We have done something similar with wind farms in the past, where we have undertaken visitor surveys and formed a view based on visitor perceptions of wind farms and their views on them. Anything we state in any submission we make in the planning realm must be evidence-based.