Mr. Frank McDonald:

I think there is no doubt about it that politicians who come from an estate agency background or who are otherwise involved in property would have a benign view of development. It goes back to the point that I made that there was a presumption in favour of development everywhere and I would say that that applied with knobs on in cases where the local authorities were populated by people from the property sector who immediately understood why a particular piece of land should be zoned or not, as the case may be.