Mr. Paul Hogan:

We are happy to follow up in writing, particularly with some of the statistics because we cannot rattle them all off, so they will not be comprehensive. My colleagues might respond on one or two issues that they could better and more briefly explain that I could.

There have been 210 grants of permission under the SHD system, 72 of which have commenced. We can get the figures from those. The number is not insignificant by any means but 138 projects have yet to commence.

There is not a very large number of judicial reviews of development plans. A whole range of issues have been deployed in relation to judicial review. They are not all environmental by any means. The ratio as between environmental versus planning is roughly 50:50. On the planning side, a small number of judicial reviews relate to development plan breaches. I do not have exact figures but we can address that.

I can confirm that there is no change in statutory timelines. It is largely a familiar system and will not give rise to significant changes.

Staffing implications are important for local government. We are aware of that and we have asked the County and City Management Association, CCMA, with regard to this matter and a range of other measures, to review its planning resourcing with a view to identifying what its needs will be, not just in relation to this issue.