Mr. Craig McLaren:

It is not a statutory requirement and will not happen across all authorities. This puts a safeguard in place in making that happen and will allow us to ensure that planners' expertise is fed into some of those decisions. It will help with arriving at net zero in respect of climate change, will help with sustainable development and will also help us to take a place-based approach as to how we take things forward. This will get that added idea of expertise to that corporate management team in the making of those decisions.