Ms Kathryn Meghen:

It might pick up on some of the points Dr. Logue has been making. One of the issues is we are having to spend so much time talking about the legal actions that might result from planning Bills when we need to be talking about having proper planning such that we do not end up with as many legal battles. Modern technologies are available and in use in other European jurisdictions that allow a member of the public to be able to see in the development plan that there is going to be a development of 100 houses or an apartment development of six storeys. People will be able to know the scale and mass of the buildings that are proposed within their area. If they can see that at the development plan stage it will remove an awful lot of the uncertainty and worry. If people can engage with the system at the development plan stage we will not end up with costly and lengthy legal battles. There are technologies that can be employed at that level but there are also ones Ms Sheridan would be experienced in where you can gather the data around the information to support the planning, including the geographic information system, GIS, data sets and whatever.