Ms Maria Graham:

In looking in broad terms at development plans, it probably is worth looking at. I would be concerned this might create some favouritism towards certain developments that may not be the best type of development if climate change and other matters are taken into account. We would be going for cheaper developments that may be the wrong developments for the place. There are a number of aspects. First, the planning system does not encourage speculative building, but at the stage that much of our construction is at, there are other measures too. Some of that is around construction costs and modern methods of construction, all of which play a role in trying to make something more viable. Maybe a range of other fiscal and financial measures would bring things into viability because they are in the right place.