Ms Maria Graham:

It happens with the board, which has a process around it. It tends to be because the last step in the process of the judicial review would be at that stage. It obviously happens in different ways depending on whether the court findings lead to legislative change which would require us to make a change to guidance or to legislation, for example.

One of the issues the Office of the Planning Regulator has been looking at with the local authorities is more formal systems of learning and development. They have recently put proposals into us that we will be looking at in the context of this year's Estimates cycle. That is around a programme of what people need to have at different levels, so we can ensure a more consistent approach to planning. The first step in doing that exercise was looking to see what people felt their needs were. It is an ongoing process but we are looking at formalising it into a more distinct programme.