Ms Joan Martin:

If one gets permission to build a house, one cannot decide to change the design and say that one is still building the house. One must build in accordance with one's permission. It is a problem if a junction is laid out differently. One cannot change it as one goes along and say a junction should have been done differently. That is the challenge and that is where the review will uncover the extent to which we need a new permission or additional lands. It would often be very difficult, if not impossible, to address concerns that people raise within an existing permission no matter how small and trivial they seem to them. The permission is not granted for something ever so slightly different that one would now like to build. That is not how one can work, legally speaking, and that is the challenge.

As Mr. Walsh said, we have been working over the past year and a bit to try and find a way to proceed within the existing permission, and the conclusion and decision that has been made is that there probably is not a way to do that. We need to review the scheme and decide how we are going to deal with these junctions before we can see exactly how to go forward.

As I said earlier, we will do that as quickly as we can.