Mr. Colin Ryan:

Section 56, as currently drafted, relates to an interim review of the plan that was made four years previously. At the end of the fourth year, the review begins. The interim report is prepared by the chief executive, and it relates to the strategy that exists in the plan that was made and how it complies with the various elements to do with the national planning framework, the regional spatial and economic strategies, RSES, the delivery of housing, the delivery on the objectives of the plan at the time and whether there is a need for amendment to reflect that change. The report is given to the elected members and they make a decision on that by resolution. That is the way the section is drafted at the moment. The purpose is to take a balanced approach and to examine halfway through the planning period where the plan is from an objective delivery point of view. It is to assess that in an objective and reasonable manner. The members make a decision on that, broadly speaking, on foot of the report by the chief executive. It is a review of the existing plan rather than a new plan.