Ms Maria Graham:

The other requirements in that case would be compliance with building regulations and adherence to the conservation aspects. In a conservation area, for example, it would be necessary for projects to comply with those regulations. While projects in those cases would be exempt from the planning process, they would not be exempt from the other regimes in place in this context. It was that combination of regimes that Mr. Reynolds has been talking about. That was part and parcel of doing the Bringing Back Homes - Manual for the Reuse of Existing Buildings, and I can send that to the committee if it does not have it already. It was intended as a manual that would go through different types of houses and set out what would be required in each case. I will include the link to the manual with the note we are sending to the committee. Essentially, however, as part of the planning process, no one is looking at a proposed design.