Ms Charlotte Sheridan:

One of the key issues in all of this is certainty which can emerge from proper plan-making. There is a huge benefit in the proposal we are making of the three dimensional development plan preparation as regards the vision it can bring to a place. It can allow development quantum, placemaking, street hierarchies, building heights and all those issues that often lead to concerns among communities to be understood. Emphasis can be given to that format of plan-making. We will look at where that phraseology might come into play in the Bill. We agree that active engagement with the community and community buy-in are essential in all this. We need to maximise the ways in which we engage with the community. There is scope for that. We are trying to propose inventive ways to do that. In addition to judicial advertisements, we can use technologies as a means to allow people to have their say in their local area. We also need to look at different age profiles so that we are not only reaching a certain cohort of people. We want to engage people at a younger age when they are in education and schools. We can set out the types of places and areas we think this could occur.