Mr. Robin Mandal:

It is on a different scale. In the same way that the first party - the developer, in the planning sense - can take an appeal on particular bits of the decision, it would be good if there were some way of providing in the Bill that a third party could assist or the board could look at things in a way that is not de novo. The board should be able to point out what it accepts from the planning authority, to identify the bit that is in dispute and concentrate on that. Such an approach would be really helpful. Again, it is to do with escalation - the less you can escalate and the more you can de-escalate conflict, the better.